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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

Fast-track approvals process - Steps before lodging substantive application - Preliminary step for listed project

29: Pre-lodgement requirements for listed project

You could also call this:

“Steps to follow before applying for a special project”

Before you can submit a big application for a special project, you need to do a few things. First, you have to talk to certain people and groups. The law tells you who these people and groups are in another part called section 11.

If your application is about getting permission to use some land, you need to follow some extra rules. These rules are similar to the ones used for mining projects. You have to do what it says in section 59(1) and (2) of a law called the Crown Minerals Act 1991.

If there’s more than one person in charge of the project, any one of you can do the talking to people and groups. But if you’re asking for permission to use land, the person who wants that permission has to follow those extra rules themselves.

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Part 2 Fast-track approvals process
Steps before lodging substantive application: Preliminary step for listed project

29Pre-lodgement requirements for listed project

  1. Before lodging a substantive application for a listed project, the authorised person for the project must—

  2. consult the persons and groups referred to in section 11; and
    1. if the substantive application seeks an approval described in section 42(4)(l) or (m) (access arrangement), 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).

      1. If there is more than 1 authorised person for a listed project,—

      2. any 1 of the authorised persons may comply with paragraph (a) of subsection (1) on behalf of all of them:
        1. the authorised person who is the proposed holder of the approval referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) must comply with that paragraph.