Environmental Offsets Act 2014
sec.14Imposing offset condition
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sec.14 Imposing offset condition
The administering agency may impose the offset condition only if satisfied— the prescribed activity will, or is likely to, have a significant residual impact on a prescribed environmental matter; and all reasonable on-site mitigation measures for the prescribed activity have been, or will be, undertaken. When making a decision under the other Act about whether to impose an offset condition, the administering agency must consider any offset condition that has been imposed on an authority under another Act for— the same, or substantially the same, impact; and the same, or substantially the same, prescribed environmental matter. s 14 sub 2014 No. 59 s 11 (sec.14-ssec.1) The administering agency may impose the offset condition only if satisfied— the prescribed activity will, or is likely to, have a significant residual impact on a prescribed environmental matter; and all reasonable on-site mitigation measures for the prescribed activity have been, or will be, undertaken. (sec.14-ssec.2) When making a decision under the other Act about whether to impose an offset condition, the administering agency must consider any offset condition that has been imposed on an authority under another Act for— the same, or substantially the same, impact; and the same, or substantially the same, prescribed environmental matter.
- (a) the prescribed activity will, or is likely to, have a significant residual impact on a prescribed environmental matter; and
- (b) all reasonable on-site mitigation measures for the prescribed activity have been, or will be, undertaken.
- (a) the same, or substantially the same, impact; and
- (b) the same, or substantially the same, prescribed environmental matter.