Section 36A — Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999: Minor amendments of accredited management arrangement or accredited authorisation process

(1) If: (a) a management arrangement or an authorisation process is an accredited management arrangement or an accredited authorisation process; and (b) the management arrangement or authorisation process is amended, or is proposed to be amended; and (c) the Minister is satisfied that the amendments are, or will be, minor; and (d) the Minister is satisfied that the management arrangement or authorisation process as amended meets, or will meet, the requirements of: (i) paragraphs 33(3)(a), (b) and (c); and (ii) section 34A; and (iii) subsection 34B(2), 34BA(2), 34C(2), 34D(2), 34E(2) or 34F(2) (as the case requires); the Minister may, by instrument in writing, determine that this section applies to the amendments. (2) If the Minister makes a determination under subsection (1): (a) the management arrangement or authorisation process as amended is, for the purposes of this Act, taken to be an accredited management arrangement or accredited authorisation process; and (b) subsections 33(1) to (8) do not apply in relation to the amendments to the management arrangement or authorisation process, or the management arrangement or authorisation process as amended; and (c) actions taken after the determination is made in accordance with the accredited management arrangement or accredited authorisation process as amended do not require approval under Part 9 for the purposes of a specified provision of Part 3. (3) The Minister must publish a determination under subsection (1) in accordance with the regulations (if any). (4) A determination under subsection (1) is not a legislative instrument.