Environmental Protection Act 1994

This section applies to an application for an environmental authority and an amendment application for an environmental authority (each an existing application) if the existing application—

was made, but not decided, before the commencement; and

relates to a resource activity that is, or is proposed to be, carried out on land that—

is in a strategic environmental area under the Regional Planning Interests Act 2014; and

was in a wild river area under the repealed Wild Rivers Act 2005 immediately before the repeal of that Act.

For assessing and deciding the existing application, the standard criteria is taken to include any relevant former wild river declaration as if the repealed Wild Rivers Act 2005 and the former wild river declaration were still in force.

In this section—former wild river declaration means a wild river declaration in force under the repealed Wild Rivers Act 2005 immediately before its repeal.