Queensland Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 749

749 Administering authority to make decision on s 683 applications

(1) This section applies to an application of a type mentioned in section 683(1)(a) or (b) that was made, but not decided, before the commencement of that section.

(2) If, before the commencement of this section, the EPA Minister had not made a decision under former section 225 and former section 225 would have applied to the application, section 683(2) continues to apply to the application but the administering authority and not the EPA Minister must make the decision under former section 225.

(3) In this section—

"EPA Minister" means the Minister administering this Act.

"former section 225" means section 225 as in force immediately before the commencement of the Environmental Protection (Greentape Reduction) and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2012, section 7.