Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT ACT - SECT 7

    (1)     The Administrator may, from time to time, determine, and determine variations of, administrative procedures for the purpose of achieving the object of this Act, being procedures that are consistent with relevant laws, as affected by the Regulations.

    (2)     Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the administrative procedures referred to in that subsection may provide for:

        (a)     the supplying to the Minister of information for the purpose of consideration, by him or on his behalf, of the necessity for assessment of the effect of a proposed action on the environment;

        (b)     authorizing the Minister to direct the preparation or obtaining, and the submission to him, of a public environmental report or an environmental impact statement;

        (c)     defining, or authorizing the Minister to determine the matters to be dealt with by, and the form of, a public environmental report or an environmental impact statement;

        (d)     the making available of a public environmental report or an environmental impact statement, in cases or circumstances specified by or in accordance with those procedures, for public comment;

        (e)     action to be taken in respect of reports resulting from inquiries made under section 10;

        (f)     the revision of a public environmental report or an environmental impact statement;

        (g)     the examination of information supplied in accordance with those procedures by or on behalf of the Minister and the making by or on behalf of the Minister of comments, suggestions or recommendations concerning the matters to which the information relates, including suggestions or recommendations concerning conditions to which approvals, agreements and other matters should be subject;

        (ga)     the making available of comments, suggestions and recommendations, in cases or circumstances specified by or in accordance with those procedures, to the public;

        (h)     exemptions from all or any of the requirements of those procedures;

        (j)     the establishing and maintaining by or on behalf of the Minister of a record in respect of each proposed action in respect of which a public environmental report or an environmental impact statement is prepared and submitted for examination and the making available of the record for public inspection; and

        (k)     the review of the effectiveness of an assessment of a proposed action under those procedures.