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Environmental Protection Act 1994
sec.680Continuing effect of existing registration certificate as environmental authority
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### sec.680 Continuing effect of existing registration certificate as environmental authority
This section applies if, immediately before the commencement—
a registration certificate is in effect; and
a code of environmental compliance applied to the chapter 4 activity stated in the certificate.
From the commencement—
the registration certificate becomes an environmental authority for a prescribed ERA; and
the standard environmental conditions of the code of environmental compliance become conditions of the authority, as standard conditions; and
the registered operator for the registration certificate becomes the holder of the environmental authority.
The environmental authority is taken to have had effect on the day the registration certificate had effect under the unamended Act.
The anniversary day for the environmental authority is the anniversary day for the registration certificate.
s 680 ins 2012 No. 16 s 60
(sec.680-ssec.1) This section applies if, immediately before the commencement— a registration certificate is in effect; and a code of environmental compliance applied to the chapter 4 activity stated in the certificate.
(sec.680-ssec.2) From the commencement— the registration certificate becomes an environmental authority for a prescribed ERA; and the standard environmental conditions of the code of environmental compliance become conditions of the authority, as standard conditions; and the registered operator for the registration certificate becomes the holder of the environmental authority.
(sec.680-ssec.3) The environmental authority is taken to have had effect on the day the registration certificate had effect under the unamended Act.
(sec.680-ssec.4) The anniversary day for the environmental authority is the anniversary day for the registration certificate.
- (a) a registration certificate is in effect; and
- (b) a code of environmental compliance applied to the chapter 4 activity stated in the certificate.
- (a) the registration certificate becomes an environmental authority for a prescribed ERA; and
- (b) the standard environmental conditions of the code of environmental compliance become conditions of the authority, as standard conditions; and
- (c) the registered operator for the registration certificate becomes the holder of the environmental authority.