Environmental Protection Act 1994

This section applies for processing the new authority application if each mining activity that forms the mining project to which the application relates is authorised under the conditions of the relevant transitional authority.

Sections 211 to 215, 216(1)(a), 217(1)(c), 219(4)(c) and 219(5)(a) do not apply for the application.

For applying sections 216(1), 217(1)(b) and 218(1) a reference to an entity, each entity or the entity is taken to be a reference to the applicant.

For applying section 219(5)(b), the reference to each objector is taken to be a reference to the applicant.

The objection period for the application starts on the day the administering authority gives the applicant a draft environmental authority and ends 20 business days after that day.

Subsections (7) and (8) apply for processing the application if—

no part of the application relates to a wild river area; and

an EIS is not required for the application under section 162(3A).

The administering authority is taken to have decided under section 162(1) that no EIS is required for the application.

Section 163 does not apply for the application.