New environmental authority (mining activities) for existing activities
588 New environmental authority (mining activities) for existing activities
This section applies if, immediately before the commencement day—
a person holds a mining tenement; and
there is no environmental authority in force for any mining activity authorised under the mining tenement.
On the commencement day, the person, is taken to hold a single environmental authority (mining activities) for all existing mining activities under the mining tenement that, immediately before the commencement day, were level 2 environmentally relevant activities.
However, if the mining tenement was part of a mining project, the person is taken to hold a single environmental authority (mining activities) for all existing mining activities under the mining tenements that form the project.
Chapter 5 applies to the authority, subject to division 4.
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