New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTALLY HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS ACT 1985 - SECT 28

28 Granting of licences

(1) A person who proposes to carry on any prescribed activity with respect to an environmentally hazardous chemical or a declared chemical waste, being an activity which, by reason of a chemical control order, may lawfully be carried on only under the authority of a licence, may apply to the Authority for a licence authorising the carrying on of that activity by an application:

(a) lodged in the manner and in the form approved in respect of the application, and

(b) accompanied by the fee prescribed in respect thereof.

(2) The Authority may cause notice of an application under subsection (1) to be published in the Gazette.

(3) A notice under subsection (2):

(a) shall contain the prescribed particulars of the application to which it relates, and

(b) shall invite any person so disposed to make submissions as to how the application should be determined.

(4) The Authority:

(a) may grant an application under subsection (1) for a licence, either subject to conditions specified in the licence or unconditionally, or

(b) may refuse to grant any such application.

(5) The Authority may at any time before determining an application under subsection (1), by notice served on the applicant, request the applicant to furnish such further particulars (including plans and specifications, where appropriate) as may be specified in the notice.