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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

32A: Pre-lodgement consultation with Director-General of Conservation

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"Talk to the Director-General of Conservation before lodging a land exchange application"

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You need to talk to the Director-General of Conservation before you lodge a land exchange application under section 33. You must do this if you are the authorised person for the project. If there are many authorised people, one of them can talk to the Director-General on behalf of all of them.

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Steps before lodging substantive application: Preliminary steps for application for land exchange

32APre-lodgement consultation with Director-General of Conservation

  1. Before lodging a land exchange application under section 33, the authorised person for the project must consult the Director-General of Conservation.

  2. If there is more than 1 authorised person for a project, any 1 of the authorised persons may comply with subsection (1) on behalf of all of them.

Notes
  • Section 32A: inserted, on , by section 17 of the Fast-track Approvals Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 78).