Queensland Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 88

88 Application of Environmental Offsets Act 2014 to Great Barrier Reef water quality offsets

(1) The Environmental Offsets Act 2014 applies in relation to a Great Barrier Reef water quality offset condition and an environmental offsets policy for a Great Barrier Reef water quality offset as if—

(a) a reference in that Act to an environmental offset were a reference to a Great Barrier Reef water quality offset; and

(b) a reference in that Act to an environmental offset condition were a reference to a Great Barrier Reef water quality offset condition; and

(c) a reference in that Act to a significant residual impact were a reference to a residual impact; and

(d) a reference in that Act to a prescribed activity were a reference to a relevant activity under this section; and

(e) a reference in that Act to a prescribed environmental matter were a reference to a river basin in the Great Barrier Reef catchment; and

(f) a reference in that Act to maintaining the viability of a prescribed environmental matter were, in relation to the prescribed environmental matter mentioned in paragraph (e) , a reference to maintaining or improving the quality of the water entering the Great Barrier Reef from a river basin in the Great Barrier Reef catchment.

(2) In this section—

"environmental offsets policy" see the Environmental Offsets Act 2014 , section 12 .

"relevant activity" see section 87 (5) .