Queensland Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 677

677 Continuing effect of existing development permit for chapter 4 activity as environmental authority

(1) This section applies if, immediately before the commencement, a development permit for a chapter 4 activity is in effect.

(2) From the commencement—

(a) if the chapter 4 activity the subject of the permit is a mobile and temporary environmentally relevant activity—

(i) the permit becomes an environmental authority for a prescribed ERA; and

(ii) the development conditions of the permit become conditions of the environmental authority, as standard conditions; and

(b) if the chapter 4 activity the subject of the permit is an activity other than a mobile and temporary environmentally relevant activity—

(i) the development conditions of the permit become an environmental authority for a prescribed ERA; and

(ii) the development conditions of the permit become conditions of the environmental authority; and

(c) the holder of the registration certificate for the activity the subject of the permit becomes the holder of the environmental authority.

(3) The environmental authority is taken to have had effect on the day the development permit had effect under the Planning Act.

(4) The anniversary day for the environmental authority is the same as the anniversary day that applied to the registration certificate immediately before the commencement.