Queensland Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 157

157 Public access to application documents

(1) The administering authority must, for all of the access period—

(a) keep the application documents for the application open for inspection by members of the public during office hours on business days at—

(i) the authority’s head office; or

(ii) the office of the authority located nearest to the land to which the application relates; or

(iii) other places the chief executive considers appropriate; and

(b) permit a person to take extracts from the application documents or, on payment of the appropriate fee to the authority, give the person a copy of the application documents, or a part of the application documents; and

(c) keep a copy of, or a link to, the application documents available on its website.

(2) In this section—

"access period" means the period that—

(a) starts the day after the application stage for the application ends; and

(b) ends on the earlier of the following—

(i) the day the application lapses or is withdrawn;

(ii) if the application is for a mining activity relating to a mining lease and the application is referred to the Land Court under section 185 —the day a final decision about the application is made under section 194 (2) ;

(iii) if the application is for a mining activity relating to a mining lease and the application is not referred to the Land Court—20 business days after the notice is given under section 181 ;

(iv) otherwise—the review date.