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← Environmental Protection and Management Act 1999

Environmental Protection and Management Act 1999 s 40N

s 40N Withdrawal or revocation of registration

40N.—(1) The Director-General may withdraw the registration of any registered GHG entity if the registered GHG entity applies to the Director-General to withdraw its registration as such. (2) The Director-General may revoke the registration of any registered GHG entity after giving written notice to the registered GHG entity and after any inquiry that the Director-General thinks fit —(a) if the Director-General is satisfied that the registered GHG entity procured the registration by providing any particulars, information or document, or by making any statement or representation, to the Director-General which is false or misleading in any material particular; (b) if the registered GHG entity no longer satisfies any of the requirements in section 40M(3); (c) if the Director-General is satisfied that the registered GHG entity has contravened, is contravening or is likely to contravene —(i) any provision of this Act; (ii) any regulations made under section 77 in relation to this Division; (iii) any condition of the registration; or (iv) any requirements imposed under any written law in relation to the use or handling of any greenhouse gas (whether or not in its gaseous state); or (d) in the event of such other occurrence or in such other circumstances as may be prescribed. (3) The Director-General’s decision must be given to the GHG entity in writing and, where the registration is revoked, together with the grounds for the revocation. (4) Where the registration of a person as a registered GHG entity has been withdrawn under subsection (1) or revoked under subsection (2), the Director-General may at any time direct the person to notify every other person for whom the person is carrying out or is intending to carry out any regulated GHG works, of the withdrawal or revocation of the registration. (5) A person that, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with a direction given to the person under subsection (4) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000.[Act 24 of 2021 wef 01/10/2022]

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