Commonwealth Numbered Regulations Commonwealth Numbered Regulations(1) The Authority must give the applicant written terms of reference for:
(a) preparing a draft public environment report or draft environmental impact statement (as the case requires) (the draft document ) about the relevant impacts of the proposed conduct; and
(b) obtaining the Authority's approval to publish the draft document; and
(c) publishing within a specified period after obtaining that approval:
(i) the draft document; and
(ii) an advertisement (the proposed conduct advertisement ) inviting interested persons to make written comments to the Authority about the draft document or the proposed conduct within a period for comment of at least 20 business days specified in the terms of reference, and setting out the manner in which any such comments must be given; and
(d) other steps (if any) to be taken by the applicant to seek comments about the draft document or the proposed conduct; and
(e) dealing with any comments received in response to the actions described in any of paragraphs (c) and (d) and section 99 (publication of proposed conduct advertisement by Authority) or with the fact that no such comments are received; and
(f) finalising the public environment report or environmental impact statement (as the case requires) (the finalised document ), taking account of any such comments, and including in the finalised document a summary of any such comments and the way in which they are addressed in the finalised document; and
(g) publishing the finalised document.
Note: This section and section 99 do not apply if:
(a) the application is an EPBC referral deemed application; and
(b) under section 100, the Authority notifies the applicant that guidelines given to the applicant under section 96A or 101A of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 also apply for the purposes of assessing the relevant impacts of the proposed conduct.
Terms of reference about draft document
(2) The terms of reference must set out requirements for the content and presentation of the draft document.
(3) In preparing the terms of reference the Authority must seek to ensure that the draft document will contain enough information about the proposed conduct and its relevant impacts to allow:
(a) a reader of the draft document to understand the nature of the proposed conduct and to make informed comments on the relevant impacts of the proposed conduct; and
(b) the Authority to make an informed decision whether or not to grant the permission.
Terms of reference about publication of proposed conduct advertisement
(4) The terms of reference must require the proposed conduct advertisement to be published in a newspaper circulating in an area of Queensland adjacent to the part of the Marine Park in which the proposed conduct is to occur. The terms of reference may also require publication of the proposed conduct advertisement in other ways.
Applicant to act in accordance with terms of reference
(5) The applicant must act in accordance with the terms of reference.
Note: The application is, or may be, taken to be withdrawn if:
(a) the applicant does not publish the advertisement within the period specified in the terms of reference (see section 101); or
(b) the applicant delays acting in accordance with the terms of reference in some other way (see section 102).