478Environmental audits

478 Environmental audits

(1) This section applies if, before the commencement day, an environmental auditor has notified the Authority that the auditor has been engaged to conduct an environmental audit under section 53U of the old Act and the environmental audit has not been completed as at the commencement day.

(2) The environmental auditor may conduct the environmental audit under the old Act or the new Act.

(3) Subject to this section, if the environmental auditor conducts the environmental audit under the old Act, the following apply to the conduct of the audit—

(a) Part IXD of the old Act continues in effect as if it had not been repealed;

(b) the auditor must comply with section 216 of the new Act in relation to an imminent state of danger or any prescribed matter or thing of which the auditor becomes aware when conducting the audit;

(c) an environmental audit report, certificate of environmental audit or statement of environmental audit issued under the old Act is taken—

(i) to satisfy the requirements of Part 8.3 of the new Act; and

(ii) to have been issued under the new Act.

S. 479 inserted by No. 39/2018 s. 18 (as amended by Nos 27/2019 ss 32−40, 3/2020 ss 45, 46, 47/2020 s. 27).