Queensland Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 426

426 Environmental authority required for particular environmentally relevant activities

(1) A person must not carry out an environmentally relevant activity unless the person holds, or is acting under, an environmental authority for the activity.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—4,500 penalty units.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person carrying out—

(a) an agricultural ERA that is not a prescribed ERA; or

(b) a small scale mining activity; or

(c) a geothermal activity that, under the Geothermal Act , is—

(i) geothermal exploration for exempt heat pump production or to evaluate the feasibility of exempt heat pump production; or

(ii) exempt heat pump production; or

(iii) other geothermal production that, under the Geothermal Act , is not of a large-scale; or

(d) a remediation activity under the Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004 , section 294B .

(3) Also, subsection (1) does not apply to the Coordinator-General, or another person acting on behalf of the Coordinator-General, in performing the functions or exercising the powers of the Coordinator-General under the State Development Act .