Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HAZARDOUS WASTE (REGULATION OF EXPORTS AND IMPORTS) ACT 1989 No. 6 of 1990 - SECT 29

29. (1) Subject to this section, where the Minister receives a variation
application, the Minister must decide whether to make the variation within 60
days after the application day.

(2) If the Minister thinks that it will take more than 60 days to decide
whether to make the variation, the Minister may extend the period within which
that decision is to be made by up to 60 days.

(3) The extension must be made by written notice given to the applicant within
60 days after the application day.

(4) If the Minister extends the period under subsection (2), the Minister must
decide whether to make the variation within the extended period.

(5) If, before the end of the period of 60 days specified in subsection (1),
or that period as extended under subsection (2):

   (a)  action is begun under the
        Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals)  Act 1974 in relation to
        the varied import proposal or varied export proposal; and

   (b)  the procedures required by that Act because of that action have not
        been completed; the Minister must decide whether to make the variation
        within 30 days after the completion of those procedures.

(6) The applicant may, by writing and before the end of the period of 30 days
referred to in subsection (5), agree to extend the period.

(7) If the applicant agrees to extend the period under subsection (6), the
Minister must decide whether to make the variation within the extended period.

(8) If the Minister has not decided whether to make the variation:

   (a)  the Minister and the applicant may, by writing and before the end of
        the period provided for by subsections (1) to (7), agree to extend the
        period; and

   (b)  the Minister must decide whether to make the variation within the
        extended period.

(9) If the Minister has not decided whether to make the variation by the end
of the day by which the Minister is required by this section to have made the
decision, the Minister is to be taken to have decided, at the end of that day,
not to make the variation.