New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTALLY HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS ACT 1985 - SECT 13

13 Application for assessment of prohibited activity

(1) A person who proposes to carry on any prescribed activity, being an activity that is for the time being a prohibited activity (or that would, if carried on otherwise than under the authority of, and in accordance with any conditions for the time being in force in respect of, the chemical control order concerned or a licence, be a prohibited activity), in relation to an environmentally hazardous chemical or a declared chemical waste may apply to the Authority in the approved form for assessment of that prescribed activity by the Authority.

(2) An application under subsection (1) for assessment of a prescribed activity in relation to a chemical or a declared chemical waste shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee and shall contain the following information:

(a) the name of the applicant,

(b) except as provided by paragraph (c)-the identity of the chemical,

(c) where the application is for assessment of a prescribed activity in relation to a chemical waste the components of which, or the respective proportions of the components of which, are variable or otherwise difficult to specify-such particulars of the composition of the waste as the Authority may require,

(d) the manner in which the prescribed activity is proposed to be carried out,

and may contain any other information the applicant wishes to include.

(3) An application under subsection (1) for assessment of a prescribed activity may request that the disclosure of the manner in which the prescribed activity is proposed to be carried on and any data of a prescribed kind relating thereto should be restricted in accordance with this Act.