Queensland Numbered Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND OTHER ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 2011 No. 3 - SECT 15

(1) Schedule 4, definition regulatory requirement—

omit.

(2) Schedule 4—

insert—

'Balance the Earth Trust means the trust by that name established under a trust deed entered into by the State on 9 October 2009.

environmental offset trust means the Balance the Earth Trust or another trust established to accept and manage amounts to fund the undertaking of works or activities to counterbalance the impacts of environmentally relevant activities or other activities on the natural environment.

regulatory requirement means a requirement under an environmental protection policy or a regulation for—

(a) the administering authority to—

(i) grant or refuse to grant, or follow stated procedures for evaluating, any of the following applications—

(A) a development application for which the administering authority is the assessment manager or a referral agency;

(B) an environmental authority application;

(C) an application for approval of a transitional environmental program; or

(ii) impose, change or cancel a condition of a development approval for a chapter 4 activity, an environmental authority or an approval of a transitional environmental program; or

(b) the Land Court to make an objections decision under section 223: or

(c) the Minister to make a decision under section 247.'.