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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

Preliminary provisions

10: Procedural principles

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"Do things quickly and in a way that makes sense for the task"

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When you are doing something under this Act, you must try to do it in a timely, efficient, and cost-effective way. You need to use processes that are suitable for what you are doing. This means doing things quickly and in a way that makes sense for the task.

If there is no time limit for something, you should still do it promptly. This also applies to chief executives of departments when they are giving advice or supporting a Minister. They must do their tasks in a timely and efficient manner.

If someone does not follow these rules, it does not automatically mean what they did was wrong or invalid. You can find similar information in the s 10 of another act.

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Part 1Preliminary provisions

10Procedural principles

  1. Every person performing functions and duties and exercising powers under this Act must take all practicable steps to use timely, efficient, consistent, and cost-effective processes that are proportionate to the functions, duties, or powers being performed or exercised.

  2. Without limiting subsection (1), that subsection—

  3. includes a duty to act promptly in circumstances where no time limit has been set for the performance or exercise of a function, power, duty, or requirement under this Act:
    1. applies to any chief executive of a department when they are providing any advice, report, or comment under this Act or supporting a Minister to do so.

      1. A failure to comply with this section does not of itself invalidate the performance of a function or duty or the exercise of a power under this Act.

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