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Natural Environment Bill

Natural resource permits - Applying for natural resource permit - General requirements

136: Priority of competing applications

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"What happens when people apply to use the same natural resource at the same time?"

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If you send in competing applications to use a natural resource, the permit authority will look at them in the order they are received. You need to know that this rule applies unless the Natural Environment Bill says otherwise. The Bill considers competing applications as two or more completed requests to use the same natural resource, where saying yes to one would stop or limit saying yes to another.

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Part 4Natural resource permits
Applying for natural resource permit: General requirements

136Priority of competing applications

  1. A permit authority that receives competing applications must determine the applications in the order in which they are received.

  2. Subsection (1) applies unless this Act expressly provides otherwise.

  3. In this section, competing applications means 2 or more completed applications for permits for the same natural resource use activity where the granting of one application would prevent or limit the granting of another application.