ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 711
Provision about cancellation of environmental authority
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 711
Provision about cancellation of environmental authority
711 Provision about cancellation of environmental authority
(1) This section applies if, on the cancellation of an environmental authority
under section 277A, there is no prescribed condition requiring the holder of
the mining tenure for carrying out the small scale activity to which the
authority relates—
(a) to give the administering authority financial
assurance; or
(b) to rehabilitate land.
(2) On the cancellation of the
environmental authority, a current condition of the authority is taken to be a
prescribed condition for carrying out the small scale mining activity.
(3)
Subsection (2) applies in relation to the carrying out of the small scale
mining activity until a regulation under section 21A prescribes a condition
requiring the holder of the mining tenure for carrying out the small scale
mining activity—
(a) to give the administering authority financial
assurance; or
(b) to rehabilitate land.
(4) In this section—
"current condition" , of an environmental authority, means a condition of the
authority requiring the holder of the authority—
(a) to give the
administering authority financial assurance; or
