ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 679
Continuing effect of existing UDA development approval for chapter 4 activity as environmental authority
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 679
Continuing effect of existing UDA development approval for chapter 4 activity as environmental authority
(1) This section applies if, immediately before the commencement— (a) a
UDA development approval for a chapter 4 activity is in effect; and
(b)
UDA development conditions (the
"relevant conditions" ) of the UDA development approval nominate the
administering authority to be the nominated assessing authority for the
conditions under the ULDA Act, section 58(a).
Note— See also the
Economic Development Act 2012, section 205 for the application of this
provision following the commencement of that Act.
(2) From the
commencement— (a) the relevant conditions of the UDA development approval—
(i) become an environmental authority for a prescribed ERA; and
(ii) become
conditions of the environmental authority; and
(b) the holder of the
registration certificate for the activity the subject of the
UDA development approval becomes the holder of the environmental authority;
and
(c) the carrying out of the prescribed ERA under the environmental
authority is not a UDA development offence.
(3) The environmental authority
is taken to have had effect on the day the UDA development approval had effect
under the ULDA Act.
(4) The anniversary day for the environmental authority
is the anniversary of the day the UDA development approval was given.
(5) In
this section—
"UDA development offence" see the ULDA Act , schedule.