Environmental Protection Act 1994

A person is an affected person for a project if the person is—

a person mentioned in subsection (2) for the operational land or any land joining it; or

any of the following under the Native Title Act 1993 (Cwlth) for the operational land or for an area that includes any of the land—

a registered native title body corporate;

a registered native title claimant;

a representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body; or

a relevant local government for the operational land.

For subsection (1)(a), the persons are as follows—

for freehold land—a registered proprietor;

for land that is held from the State for an estate or interest less than fee simple and for which the interest is recorded in a register mentioned in the Land Act 1994 (Land Act), section 276—a person recorded in the register as the registered holder of the interest;

for land subject to a mining claim, mineral development licence or mining lease—a holder of, or an applicant for, the mining tenure;

for land subject to a relevant tenure for an environmental authority for a resource activity, other than a mining activity—the holder of the tenure;

for land under the Land Act or the Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) for which there are trustees—a trustee of the land;

for Aboriginal land under the Aboriginal Land Act 1991 (ALA) that is taken to be a reserve because of section 202(2) or (4)(b) of that Act—the trustee of the land;

for DOGIT land under the ALA or the Torres Strait Islander Land Act 1991—a trustee for the land;

for Torres Strait Islander land under the Torres Strait Islander Land Act 1991 that is taken to be a reserve because of section 151(2) of that Act—the trustee of the land;

for land that, under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Holding Act 2013, is lease land for a 1985 Act granted lease or a new Act granted lease—the lessee;

for land that is any of the following, the State—

unallocated State land;

a reserve under the Land Act for which there is no trustee;

a national park (scientific), national park, national park (Aboriginal land), national park (Torres Strait Islander land) or forest reserve under the NCA;

a conservation park or resources reserve under the NCA for which there are no trustees;

a State forest or timber reserve under the Forestry Act 1959;

a State-controlled road;

a fish habitat area under the Fisheries Act 1994;

another person prescribed under a regulation.