Environmental Protection Act 1994

This section applies if the administering authority delegates the authority’s powers under this Act to a local government.

A regulation may make provision about, or empower the administering authority to make guidelines about—

the policy objectives and criteria to which the local government must have regard; and

the way in which the local government must exercise a delegated power, including, for example, time limits for the making of decisions; and

appeals from the local government’s decisions; and

the cases involving the exercise of a delegated power that must be referred to the administering authority or someone else for decision, including the criteria to be applied in deciding whether a particular case must be referred; and

the conditions to which an authority issued by the delegate must be subject; and

the consequences of contravention of the regulation or guidelines.

This section does not limit the Acts Interpretation Act 1954, section 27A.