Queensland Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 115

115 Development application taken to be application for environmental authority in particular circumstances

(1) This section applies if—

(a) a development application is made for a development permit for a material change of use of premises under the Planning Act ; and

(b) the material change of use of premises—

(i) is for a prescribed ERA; and

(ii) is categorised as assessable development under a regulation made under the Planning Act .

(2) The development application is taken to also be an application for an environmental authority for the prescribed ERA.

(3) However, parts 2 , other than division 2 , to 4 do not apply to the application for the environmental authority.

(4) A properly made submission under the Planning Act about the development application is, to the extent it relates to the prescribed ERA, taken to be a properly made submission about the application for the environmental authority.

(5) If the development application lapses or is changed or withdrawn under the Planning Act , the application for an environmental authority for the prescribed ERA is also taken to have lapsed or been changed or withdrawn.