ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 595 Requirement to apply to amend, surrender or transfer transitional authority

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 595

595 Requirement to apply to amend, surrender or transfer transitional authority

(1) The holder of a transitional authority must, within the required period, make in relation to the authority—

(a) a conversion application; or

(b) an amendment, surrender or transfer application under chapter 5.

(2) Also, if the holder does not also hold a relevant mining tenement, the holder must, on the happening of the earlier of the following, make a surrender application or an application under section 607 for the authority—

(a) the replacement or amendment, under section 235, of any plan of operations for the authority;

(b) 90 days before the transitional period ends.

(3) In this section—


"required period" means—

(a) if the person is, under section 588, taken to hold the authority—6 months after the commencement day; or

(b) otherwise—the transitional period.