ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT 2019 - SECT 142 Direction by CEO to carry out environmental audit

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT 2019 - SECT 142

The CEO may direct an approval holder to cause an environmental audit to be carried out by a qualified person if the CEO believes or suspects on reasonable grounds that:

        (a)     the approval holder has contravened, or is likely to contravene, a condition of the environmental approval; or

        (ab)     the approval holder, in carrying out an action, is carrying out, or has carried out, a prohibited action or an action in a protected environmental area that is prohibited in that area; or

        (ac)     the approval holder has otherwise contravened, or is likely to contravene, this Act; or

        (b)     the environmental impacts that the action authorised by the environmental approval has, has had, or is likely to have are significantly greater than was indicated in the information that was available to the Minister when the environmental approval was granted.