(1) Section 109
applies to and in relation to the Appeals Convenor as if the Appeals Convenor
were an appeals committee and a report of the Appeals Convenor made under
section 106 has effect as if it were a report of an appeals committee.
(2) In addition to any
other function conferred on the Appeals Convenor by this Act, the Appeals
Convenor may —
(a)
advise the Minister generally on matters concerning appeals under this Act;
and
(b)
perform such other functions as are conferred on the Appeals Convenor by any
other written law.
(3) There are to be
appointed under Part 3 of the Public Sector Management Act 1994 such officers
as are necessary to assist the Appeals Convenor to perform the Appeals
Convenor’s functions.
(4) If an appeal under
section 100, 101A, 101B(1), 102, 103 or 104(1), as enacted at any time, is
lodged with the Appeals Convenor, it is taken to have been lodged with the
Minister.
(5) Subsection (4)
extends, and is taken to have always extended, to appeals lodged before the
coming into operation of the Environmental Protection Amendment Act 2020
section 90.
[Section 107B inserted: No. 54 of 2003 s. 102;
amended: No. 40 of 2020 s. 90 and 111(1).]