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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 267 Advice from relevant resource legislation chief executive about surrender application

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 267

Advice from relevant resource legislation chief executive about surrender application

267 Advice from relevant resource legislation chief executive about surrender application

(1) The administering authority may, before it makes a decision to refuse a surrender application for an environmental authority for a mining activity, seek advice from the chief executive of the department in which the Mineral Resources Act is administered.
(2) Also, the administering authority may, before it decides a surrender application for an environmental authority for a resource activity, seek advice from the chief executive administering the relevant resource legislation about the post-surrender management report for land the subject of the application.
(3) The advice may be sought in the way the administering authority considers appropriate.
(4) If the advice is given, it must be given within the period required under section 266 (2) for the administering authority to make the decision.