Queensland Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 591

591 Procedure for other unfinished applications

(1) This section applies if—

(a) before the commencement day, a person applied for a mining tenement; and

(b) the mining tenement has not been granted; and

(c) an environmental authority application in relation to the mining tenement is not an application to which, under section 590(1), the existing Act applies.

(2) The environmental authority application is taken to have been made on the commencement day.

(3) Chapter 5 applies to the application.

(4) However, the following do not apply—

(a) a time requirement under that chapter for the administering authority to—

(i) make an assessment level decision; or

(ii) take a step for deciding the application; or

(iii) decide the application or make a decision about the application;

(b) sections 169 and 182.