15A   Application of EPA Act

(1)  Parts 4, 4A and 5A and Division 2A of Part 6 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 apply to the Island as if a reference to the consent authority were a reference to the Board.

(2)  For the purposes of that Act:

(a)  the Island is taken to be a region within the meaning of that Act, and

(b)  the Board is taken to be the council of an area situated in that region.