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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

Fast-track approvals process - Panel consideration of substantive application - EPA powers and duties relating to substantive application

93: EPA must publish notices and other documents

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“EPA shares important papers online for free”

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) needs to publish certain documents on their website. This includes any written notices or other documents that they receive from people or send to people, as required by this law. The EPA must make these documents available on their website for everyone to see, and it should be free to access.

However, the EPA can choose not to publish some information if they think there’s a good reason to keep it private. They use the Official Information Act 1982 to help them decide what information they can keep private.

You can find these documents on the EPA’s website. They try to make it as easy as possible for you to access them without having to pay anything.

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Panel consideration of substantive application: EPA powers and duties relating to substantive application

93EPA must publish notices and other documents

  1. This section applies to every written notice or other document that this Act requires to be—

  2. received by the EPA or a panel from any person; or
    1. sent by the EPA or a panel to any person.

      1. The EPA must publish the written notice or other document on an internet site that is administered by or on behalf of the EPA and is publicly available as far as practicable and free of charge.

      2. In complying with subsection (1), the EPA may withhold information if the EPA is satisfied that there would be good reason to withhold the information under the Official Information Act 1982 if the information were requested under that Act.

      Compare
      • 2020 No 35 Schedule 6 cl 8(2)
      • 2023 No 46 Schedule 10 cl 43