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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

Fast-track approvals process - Steps before lodging substantive application - Preliminary steps for application for land exchange

34: Director-General of Conservation decides whether application is complete and within scope

You could also call this:

“Conservation boss checks if your land swap request is ready and fits the rules”

The Director-General of Conservation has to decide if your land exchange application is complete and within scope. They have 15 working days to do this after you submit your application.

Your application is considered complete and within scope if it meets these requirements:

  1. It includes all the information required by section 33(1).
  2. It’s only about a project that’s on the list or has been referred.
  3. You submitted it by the deadline given in the notice.
  4. You’ve paid any fees, charges, or levies for the application.

If the Director-General decides your application doesn’t meet these requirements, they will send it back to you right away. They will also tell you in writing why they’re sending it back.

If you want to try again after your application is sent back, you can submit it again. But when you do this, it’s treated as a brand new application. The Director-General gets another 15 working days to check it.

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Part 2 Fast-track approvals process
Steps before lodging substantive application: Preliminary steps for application for land exchange

34Director-General of Conservation decides whether application is complete and within scope

  1. The Director-General of Conservation must decide whether subsection (2) is met within 15 working days after a land exchange application is lodged.

  2. This subsection is met if—

  3. the land exchange application—
    1. complies with section 33(1); and
      1. relates solely to a listed project or a referred project; and
        1. is made by the deadline specified in the notice under section 28(3)(d); and
        2. any fee, charge, or levy payable under regulations in respect of the land exchange application is paid.

          1. If the Director-General of Conservation decides that subsection (2) is not met, the Director-General must return the information immediately to the applicant, with written reasons for the return.

          2. If a land exchange application is lodged again after being returned by the Director-General of Conservation,—

          3. the information must be treated as new information; and
            1. the time period specified in subsection (1) begins again for the Director-General.