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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

Fast-track approvals process - Referral of project to fast-track approvals process - Steps before lodging referral application

12: Notice of request to grant right of access for proposed access arrangement

You could also call this:

“Telling landowners when someone wants to use their land for mining”

You need to know about this if someone wants to get permission to access land for mining or similar activities. Before they can ask for this permission officially, they have to do a few things:

First, this rule applies when someone wants approval for an access arrangement. An access arrangement is when you need permission to go onto land that belongs to someone else.

Before asking for this approval, the person who wants it must tell the landowner. They have to follow the same steps as if they were asking for access under a different law called the Crown Minerals Act.

If more than one person is asking for approval together, the main person who will be in charge of the access must be the one to tell the landowner.

This is all part of making sure that landowners know what’s happening on their land before any official requests are made.

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Referral of project to fast-track approvals process: Steps before lodging referral application

12Notice of request to grant right of access for proposed access arrangement

  1. This section applies if a proposed approval is an approval described in section 42(4)(l) or (m) (access arrangement).

  2. Before lodging the referral application, the applicant must comply with section 59(1) and (2) of the Crown Minerals Act 1991 (which applies as if a reference to an access arrangement under that Act were a reference to an access arrangement under this Act).

  3. If a referral application is to be lodged by more than 1 person, the person who is the proposed holder of the approval referred to in subsection (1) must comply with this section.