ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1986 - SECT 107B

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1986 - SECT 107B

107B .         Functions of Appeals Convenor

        (1)         Section 109 applies to and in relation to the Appeals Convenor as if the Appeals Convenor were an appeals committee and a report of the Appeals Convenor made under section 106 has effect as if it were a report of an appeals committee.

        (2)         In addition to any other function conferred on the Appeals Convenor by this Act, the Appeals Convenor may —

            (a)         advise the Minister generally on matters concerning appeals under this Act; and

            (b)         perform such other functions as are conferred on the Appeals Convenor by any other written law.

        (3)         There are to be appointed under Part 3 of the Public Sector Management Act 1994 such officers as are necessary to assist the Appeals Convenor to perform the Appeals Convenor’s functions.

        (4)         If an appeal under section 100, 101A, 101B(1), 102, 103 or 104(1), as enacted at any time, is lodged with the Appeals Convenor, it is taken to have been lodged with the Minister.

        (5)         Subsection (4) extends, and is taken to have always extended, to appeals lodged before the coming into operation of the Environmental Protection Amendment Act 2020 section 90.

        [Section 107B inserted: No. 54 of 2003 s. 102; amended: No. 40 of 2020 s. 90 and 111(1).]