ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1986 - SECT 31

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1986 - SECT 31

31 .         Minister to remit draft policy, or approve it (with or without amendments) or refuse to approve it

                After the Minister —

            (a)         has received and considered —

                  (i)         a copy of a draft policy (in this section called the draft policy ), together with a report thereon, submitted under section 28 or 32(1)(b); and

                  (ii)         if a committee of inquiry is appointed under section 29 in respect of the draft policy, the report made by the committee of inquiry;

                and

            (b)         has consulted any public authority or person under section 30 in respect of the draft policy,

                the Minister shall —

            (c)         remit the draft policy to the Authority for reconsideration and shall, if the Minister considers that the matter calling for remittal is of minor importance, give to the Authority a certificate to that effect briefly describing that matter and cause that certificate to be published in the Gazette ; or

            (d)         approve the draft policy, with or without such amendments as the Minister thinks fit to make to the draft policy, by order setting out the draft policy in amended or unamended form, as the case requires; or

            (e)         refuse to approve the draft policy by order setting out the Minister’s reasons for so refusing.

        [Section 31 amended: No. 40 of 2020 s. 111(1).]