Regional Planning Interests Act 2014

This section applies for a strategic environmental area.

The functions of an authorised person (environment) under the Environmental Protection Act include to ensure compliance with this Act (the further function).

For the purposes of subsection (2)—

an authorised person (environment) may exercise the person’s powers under the Environmental Protection Act, chapter 9 to perform the further function; and

an authorised person (environment) may enter a place under section 452 of that Act if the place is—

the subject of a regional interests development approval; and

entered during daylight hours; and

on an application by an authorised person (environment), a magistrate may issue a warrant for a place under section 456 of that Act only if the magistrate is satisfied there are reasonable grounds for suspecting—

there is a particular thing or activity (the evidence) that may provide evidence of an offence against this Act; and

the evidence is at the place or, within the next 7 days, may be at the place.

In this section—