Queensland Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 616Z

616Z Continuing effect of environmental authority as a registration certificate and development approval

(1) From the commencement—

(a) the environmental authority has effect as if it were a registration certificate for the activity; and

(b) the environmental authority has effect as if the holder of the authority were the registered operator for the activity; and

(c) the environmental authority has effect as if it were—

(i) if the activity would, after the commencement, be a mobile and temporary activity—a development approval for a material change of use under the repealed Integrated Planning Act 1997, schedule 8, part 1, table 5, item 3; or

(ii) in any other case—a development approval for a material change of use under the repealed Integrated Planning Act 1997, schedule 8, part 1, table 2, item 1; and

(d) any condition of the environmental authority has effect as if it were a development condition of the development approval.

(2) The conditions of the environmental authority are taken to include any condition that the administering authority is, under section 73B(2), required to impose under a regulatory requirement had it been deciding a development application for the chapter 4 activity at the commencement.

(3) This section stops applying if the environmental authority ends under section 616ZB.