Crown Minerals Act 1991

Permits, access to land, and other matters - Permits, access to land, and title notations

29: Minister may require survey to be done

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"The Minister can ask someone to survey their land before deciding on a permit."

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The Minister can ask for a survey to be done on land that someone has applied for a permit for. You need to have the land surveyed in a specific way if the Minister asks for it. The Minister will wait until they get a survey plan, checked by the Surveyor-General, before deciding whether to grant a permit.

The survey plan must be given to the chief executive by the person who applied for the permit. This plan is important for the Minister to make a decision about the permit. The Minister gets to decide when to ask for a survey to be done.

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Part 1BPermits, access to land, and other matters
Permits, access to land, and title notations

29Minister may require survey to be done

Where the Minister considers it appropriate to do so, the Minister may require that land to which an application for a permit relates be surveyed in the prescribed manner and may postpone making a determination in respect of the granting of a permit until a survey plan, certified by the Surveyor-General, has been lodged with the chief executive by or on behalf of the applicant.

Notes

Section 29: amended, on 24 May 2013, by section 64 of the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 14).