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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 588

New environmental authority (mining activities) for existing activities

588 New environmental authority (mining activities) for existing activities

(1) This section applies if, immediately before the commencement day
(a) a person holds a mining tenement; and
(b) there is no environmental authority in force for any mining activity authorised under the mining tenement.
(2) On the commencement day, the person, is taken to hold a single environmental authority (mining activities) for all existing mining activities under the mining tenement that, immediately before the commencement day, were level 2 environmentally relevant activities.
(3) However, if the mining tenement was part of a mining project, the person is taken to hold a single environmental authority (mining activities) for all existing mining activities under the mining tenements that form the project.
(4) Chapter 5 applies to the authority, subject to division 4.



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