Queensland Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 607

607 Consolidation of conditions for same mining project

(1) This section applies—

(a) if more than 1 person holds a transitional authority for the same mining project; and

(b) despite chapter 5.

(2) A person who holds a transitional authority for the project, may apply to the administering authority to—

(a) amend any environmental authority (mining activities) held by a stated holder of a relevant mining tenement to include the conditions of the applicant’s transitional authority; and

(b) surrender the applicant’s transitional authority.

(3) The application must—

(a) be in the approved form; and

(b) if the stated mining tenement holder is not the applicant—be accompanied by the tenement holder’s written consent.

(4) The administering authority must, within 10 business days after it receives the application, decide either to grant or refuse it.

(5) If the authority decides to grant the application, it must within 10 business days after the decision is made—

(a) amend the stated mining tenement holder’s environmental authority (mining activities) to give effect to the amendment; and

(b) record the surrender in the appropriate register; and

(c) give the mining tenement holder a copy of the amended authority.

(6) The amendment takes effect on the day of the amendment or a later day stated in the amended authority.

(7) If the authority decides to refuse the application, it must within 10 business days after the decision is made, give each applicant an information notice about the decision.

(8) This section does not limit the authority’s power to amend an environmental authority (mining activities) under chapter 5, part 12 or section 605.