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Pulp Mill Assessment Act 2007
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### 6 Assessment by relevant persons
> > (1) The Minister must request relevant persons to make a recommendation as to the conditions, if any, that should apply to the project.
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> > (2) On receipt of a request, a relevant person must undertake an assessment of the conditions, if any, that should apply to the project.
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> > (3) In undertaking an assessment, a relevant person must take account of the report of the consultant referred to in [section 4(3)](#GS4@Gs3@EN) .
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> > (4) A relevant person must make a recommendation, as to the conditions that should apply to the project, to the Minister by such date as the Minister determines.
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> > (5) A relevant person may only make a recommendation that involves or requires the issuing or regulation of a permit, licence or approval, or the regulation of an action, for which the relevant person would have been responsible if this Act, except for [section 13](#GS13@EN) , had not been enacted.
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> > (6) Subject to [subsection (5)](#GS6@Gs5@EN) , a relevant person may recommend a condition that requires the person proposing the project to apply for such other permits, licences or other approvals as may be necessary for the project.
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> > (7) If a relevant person recommends conditions that should apply to the project, the relevant person must specify –
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> > > > (a) those conditions; and
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> > > > (b) the Act, if any, pursuant to which, and the permit, licence or other approval in which, each condition would normally be imposed; and
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> > > > (c) the person, body or State Service Agency responsible for the enforcement of each condition.
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> > (8) The Minister is to prepare a permit, to be called the "Pulp Mill Permit", containing the substance of the conditions recommended by a relevant person under [subsection (4)](#GS6@Gs4@EN) and other matters specified under [subsection (7)](#GS6@Gs7@EN) .
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> > (9) The Minister must cause the report of the consultant and the Pulp Mill Permit to be laid before each House of Parliament by no later than 31 August 2007.
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> > (10) The Minister may table in each House of Parliament any other report that in the Minister's opinion is relevant to the project at the same time as the Minister causes the report and Pulp Mill Permit to be tabled under [subsection (9)](#GS6@Gs9@EN) .