(1) This section applies if, immediately before the commencement day—
(a) a
person holds a mining tenement; and
(b) there is no environmental authority
in force for any mining activity authorised under the mining tenement.
(2) On
the commencement day, the person, is taken to hold a single environmental
authority (mining activities) for all existing mining activities under the
mining tenement that, immediately before the commencement day, were level 2
environmentally relevant activities.
(3) However, if the mining tenement was
part of a mining project, the person is taken to hold a single environmental
authority (mining activities) for all existing mining activities under the
mining tenements that form the project.
(4) Chapter 5 applies to the
authority, subject to division 4.
