Environmental Protection Act 1994

This section applies if, immediately before the commencement—

a UDA development approval for a chapter 4 activity is in effect; and

UDA development conditions (the relevant conditions) of the UDA development approval nominate the administering authority to be the nominated assessing authority for the conditions under the ULDA Act, section 58(a).

Note—See also the Economic Development Act 2012, section 205 for the application of this provision following the commencement of that Act.

From the commencement—

the relevant conditions of the UDA development approval—

become an environmental authority for a prescribed ERA; and

become conditions of the environmental authority; and

the holder of the registration certificate for the activity the subject of the UDA development approval becomes the holder of the environmental authority; and

the carrying out of the prescribed ERA under the environmental authority is not a UDA development offence.

The environmental authority is taken to have had effect on the day the UDA development approval had effect under the ULDA Act.

The anniversary day for the environmental authority is the anniversary of the day the UDA development approval was given.

In this section—UDA development offence see the ULDA Act, schedule.