252Environmental assessment

252 Environmental assessment

252 Environmental assessment

(1) The Minister may, on the application of a person who proposes to undertake an assessment (for the purposes of this Act or the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979) of the likely effect on the environment of the activities to be carried out under an authority or a mineral claim, grant a permit to the applicant to enter any land so as to enable the person to undertake the assessment.

(2) (Repealed)

(3) The holder of a permit under this section, and any employee or agent of the holder, may, in accordance with the permit—

(a) enter the land to which the permit relates, and

(b) do on that land all such things as are reasonably necessary to carry out the assessment to which the permit relates.

(4), (5) (Repealed)

(6) A permit under this section may not be granted in respect of land within a national park, state conservation area, regional park, historic site, nature reserve, karst conservation reserve, Aboriginal area, wildlife refuge or Aboriginal place within the meaning of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 except with the concurrence of the Minister administering that Act.

(7) A permit under this section may not be granted in respect of land within a marine park within the meaning of the Marine Estate Management Act 2014 except with the concurrence of the relevant Ministers within the meaning of that Act.

s 252: Am 1996 No 58, Sch 2.6; 1997 No 64, Sch 4.2; 2006 No 120, Sch 2.54; 2008 No 107, Sch 19 [30]–[32]; 2014 No 72, Sch 4.7.