Validation of environmental authorities purportedly issued for particular standard applications
824 Validation of environmental authorities purportedly issued for particular standard applications
This section applies if, before the commencement—
a standard application was made for an environmental authority; and
the application was purportedly approved under former section 170(2)(a) by the operation of an automated system; and
the authority was purportedly issued under former section 195(2)(a) by the operation of an automated system.
Both of the following apply—
the standard application is taken to have been approved by a decision of the administering authority;
the environmental authority is taken to have been issued by the administering authority at the relevant time.
Anything done or omitted to be done that would have been valid and lawful under this Act or another Act, had the standard application been approved by a decision of the administering authority, and had the environmental authority been issued by the administering authority at the relevant time, is taken to be, and always to have been, valid and lawful.
In this section—
automated system means an electronic system operated from time to time by a person performing a function under this Act for an administering authority.
former, for a provision, means the provision as in force from time to time before the commencement.
relevant time, in relation to an environmental authority, means the time the authority was purportedly issued by the operation of an automated system.
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