ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1986 - SECT 37

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1986 - SECT 37

37 .         Minor changes to approved policies

        (1)         The Minister may, if the Authority recommends, and the Minister agrees, that a minor change be made to an approved policy, give to the Authority a certificate stating that the Minister so agrees and setting out the minor change so recommended and cause that certificate to be published in the Gazette .

        (2)         After receiving a certificate given to it under subsection (1), the Authority shall amend the approved policy concerned by making the minor change to which that certificate relates and submit the approved policy as so amended, together with a report thereon, to the Minister.

        (3)         After the Minister has received an approved policy submitted under subsection (2), together with a report thereon, the Minister may —

            (a)         confirm that approved policy by order setting out that approved policy as amended under that subsection; or

            (b)         refuse to confirm that approved policy.

        (4)         Subject to subsection (5), this Act applies to an approved policy confirmed under subsection (3) as if that approved policy had been approved under section 31(d) in its amended form on the date of that confirmation.

        (5)         Section 42 of the Interpretation Act 1984 applies to an order referred to in subsection (3)(a) as if that order were regulations within the meaning of that section of that Act.

        [Section 37 amended: No. 40 of 2020 s. 111(1).]