Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 36A

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a management arrangement or an authorisation process is an accredited management arrangement or an accredited authorisation process; and

  (b)   the management arrangement or authorisation process is amended, or is proposed to be amended; and

  (c)   the Minister is satisfied that the amendments are, or will be, minor; and

  (d)   the Minister is satisfied that the management arrangement or authorisation process as amended meets, or will meet, the requirements of:

  (i)   paragraphs 33(3)(a), (b) and (c); and

  (ii)   section   34A; and

  (iii)   subsection   34B(2), 34BA(2), 34C(2), 34D(2), 34E(2) or 34F(2) (as the case requires);

the Minister may, by instrument in writing, determine that this section applies to the amendments.

  (2)   If the Minister makes a determination under subsection   (1):

  (a)   the management arrangement or authorisation process as amended is, for the purposes of this Act, taken to be an accredited management arrangement or accredited authorisation process; and

  (b)   subsections   33(1) to (8) do not apply in relation to the amendments to the management arrangement or authorisation process, or the management arrangement or authorisation process as amended; and

  (c)   actions taken after the determination is made in accordance with the accredited management arrangement or accredited authorisation process as amended do not require approval under Part   9 for the purposes of a specified provision of Part   3.

  (3)   The Minister must publish a determination under subsection   (1) in accordance with the regulations (if any).

  (4)   A determination under subsection   (1) is not a legislative instrument.