296Saving of existing assessments commenced but not

296 Saving of existing assessments commenced but not completed (1) Subject to this Division, if an assessment of a proposed action commenced under the former Act but an assessment report was not completed before the commencement, the former Act continues to apply to that assessment as if section 294 had not commenced. (2) For subsection (1), the former procedures continue to apply to the proposal as if: (a) section 294 had not commenced; and (b) any reference in the former procedures to "days" were a reference to "business days"; and (c) after clause 10A(1) there were inserted: "(1A) Clauses 9 and 10 apply (with any necessary changes) in relation to a supplement prepared under subclause (2) as if: (a) the supplement were a report; and (b) any reference in clause 9(2)(b) to 28 days were a reference to 15 business days"; and (d) after clause 11(1) there were inserted: "(1A) If a supplement is prepared after the commencement of section 294 of the Environment Protection Act 2019, the reference in subclause (1) to the period specified in the notice mentioned in clause 9(2)(b)(i) is a reference to that period as specified in relation to the supplement."; and (e) in clause 11(3)(a) after "clause 9" there were inserted "(including any comments relating to a supplement)". Environment Protection Act 2019 256