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ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 156

General rules about time limits

  (1)   If this Chapter   specifies a time limit in business days in relation to a controlled action (or an action that the Minister believes may be or is a controlled action), the limit is to be worked out by reference to what is a business day in the place where the action is to be taken.

  (2)   A day is not to be counted as a business day for the purposes of subsection   (1) if it is not a business day in all the places in which the action is to be taken.

  (3)   Failure to comply with a time limit set in this Chapter   does not affect the validity of:

  (a)   a decision under this Chapter; or

  (b)   an assessment or approval under this Chapter.

Note:   The Minister must make a statement to Parliament about some failures to comply with time limits. See section   518.


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