Queensland Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 680

680 Continuing effect of existing registration certificate as environmental authority

(1) This section applies if, immediately before the commencement—

(a) a registration certificate is in effect; and

(b) a code of environmental compliance applied to the chapter 4 activity stated in the certificate.

(2) From the commencement—

(a) the registration certificate becomes an environmental authority for a prescribed ERA; and

(b) the standard environmental conditions of the code of environmental compliance become conditions of the authority, as standard conditions; and

(c) the registered operator for the registration certificate becomes the holder of the environmental authority.

(3) The environmental authority is taken to have had effect on the day the registration certificate had effect under the unamended Act.

(4) The anniversary day for the environmental authority is the anniversary day for the registration certificate.