Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

A person is a relevant person for a compliance audit if the person is:

for an audit of activities relating to an environmental authority:

the holder of the authority; or

if the activities are those of a person who is otherwise approved to take an action under the authority—the person carrying on those activities; or

for an audit of activities relating to an environmental exemption—the person to whom the exemption applies; or

for an audit of activities relating to a marine park permission—the holder of the permission; or

for an audit of activities relating to an environmental order or a marine park order—the person who is subject to the order and whose activities the audit is concerned with; or

for an audit of activities mentioned in item 6 of the table in subsection 462(1)—the person who is or was carrying on, or is proposing to carry on, the activities.

A person is also a relevant person for a compliance audit if the person is acting as an agent of the relevant person under subsection (1), and appears to be doing or to have done so in relation to activities to which the audit relates.