2017-12-12 S&O Agenda - Attachment 1 to Item 7 - Updated Delegations of Authority

                                                                          ATTACHMENT 1

DESCRIPTION OF POWER DELEGATED                                                   LEGISLATION

Power, as an administering authority, to decide whether an application made by Section 228
the holder of an environmental authority to amend the authority is a minor or
major amendment.
Power, as an administering authority, to give written agreement to the continued Section 237
assessment of a changed application to amend an environmental authority.

Power, as an administering authority, to request further information needed to Section 238(3)
assess a changed amendment application which is not a minor change and to
which the information stage applies.
Power, as an administering authority, to decide that the notification stage be Section 238(7)
repeated in respect of a changed amendment application which would be likely
to attract a submission objecting to the change.
Power, as an administering authority, to:-                                    Section 240 and
(a) decide to approve or refuse an amendment application;                     242
(b) if the amendment is approved, to make other amendments to the
     conditions of the environmental authority;
(c) give notice of the decision to the applicant; and
(d) include a copy of any amended environmental authority in the register.
Power, as an administering authority, to decide to approve an application to Section 247
amalgamate environmental authorities or refuse an amalgamation application to
which section 247(1)(b) applies.
Power, as an administering authority, to:-                                       Section 250C
(a)    de-amalgamate an environmental authority;
(b)    issue 2 or more environmental authorities; and
(c)    include each environmental authority in the relevant register.
Power, as an administering authority, to approve or refuse an application by the Section 254
holder of an environmental authority to transfer all or part of the environmental
authority to another entity.
Power, as an administering authority, to decide whether a final rehabilitation Section 264
report includes enough information to decide that the requirements in section
264(1)(b)(i) and 264(1)(b)(ii) have been met.
Power, as an administering authority, to make a written request to an applicant Section 265
to give further information needed to assess an application to surrender an
environmental authority.
Power, as an administering authority, to approve or refuse a surrender Section 266
application.

Power, as an administering authority, to:-                                       Sections 278,
(a) cancel or suspend an environmental authority if an event mentioned in        279, 280, 281,
     section 278(2) has occurred;                                                282, and 283
(b) follow the procedures in Chapter 5, Part 11, Division 2; and to              and 284
(c) give notice of the decision; and
(d) record the action in the relevant register.
Power, as an administering authority, to approve or refuse an application made   Section 284C
by the holder of an environmental authority to suspend the environmental
authority.



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