Queensland Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 626

626 Effect of commencement on particular applications in progress

(1) This section applies to—

(a) an application for an environmental authority for a chapter 4 activity not decided before the commencement of this section, including an application mentioned in section 611; or

(b) an application to amend, surrender or transfer an environmental authority for a chapter 4 activity not decided before the commencement of this section.

(2) From the commencement—

(a) processing of the application and all matters incidental to the processing must proceed as if the Environmental Protection Legislation Amendment Act 2003 had not been enacted; and

(b) any environmental authority granted, amended or transferred is taken to be an environmental authority to which section 619 applies.

(3) However, subsection (4) applies for an application mentioned in subsection (1) if—

(a) the administering authority, by written notice, asks the applicant to give the administering authority a stated document or information relevant to the application; and

(b) the applicant does not give the document or information to the administering authority within the time stated in the request or such other time the administering authority agrees to in writing.

(4) The application lapses at the end of the time stated in the request or agreed to.