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Environment Protection Act 2019
92Environmental approval to prevail over other statutory
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92 Environmental approval to prevail over other statutory
authorisations
(1) An environmental approval has effect despite anything to the
contrary in any other statutory authorisation.
(2) Despite anything to the contrary in any other Act, a statutory
decision-maker must not make a decision in relation to a statutory
authorisation (including an amendment to an authorisation) that is
inconsistent with an environmental approval.
(3) A statutory authorisation granted before or after an environmental
approval is of no effect to the extent that it is inconsistent with an
(4) Nothing in this section prevents a statutory decision-maker from
refusing to grant a statutory authorisation on the basis of a potential
economic, social, health or cultural impact.
(5) For this section, a statutory authorisation is not inconsistent with an
environmental approval on the basis that the statutory authorisation
includes conditions that:
(a) are more stringent than the environmental approval; or
(b) address matters that are not included in the environmental