Environment Protection Act 2019

A mining operator may apply to the Minister to grant a modified condition licence or tailored condition licence under section 313 with amended conditions.

The amended conditions may include conditions of a kind and to the same effect as a condition mentioned in sections 124X to 124ZC.

The Minister may grant the modified condition licence or tailored condition licence with the amendments sought in the application.

The Minister may, on the Minister’s own initiative, include in a modified condition licence or a tailored condition licence a condition requiring monitoring and reporting of specified matters and the publication of the results of the monitoring and reports.

After consulting with the mining operator, the Minister may, on the Minister’s own initiative, include in a modified condition licence or a tailored condition licence a condition referred to in section 124Z that:

relates to a matter to which a permit, licence or other authorisation under a prescribed enactment under section 124Z applied immediately before the grant of the modified condition licence or tailored condition licence; and

that imposes substantially the same requirements as that permit, licence or authorisation.