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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

Preliminary provisions

10: Procedural principles

You could also call this:

“Rules for working quickly and wisely when using this law”

When people are working with this law, they need to do things quickly and efficiently. This means they should try to save time and money while still doing a good job. They should make sure their actions match the task they’re doing.

Even if there’s no set time limit for a task, people should still try to do it quickly. This applies to everyone, including the heads of government departments when they’re giving advice or reports about this law.

If someone doesn’t follow these rules, it doesn’t automatically mean that what they did doesn’t count. The law will still work, even if someone didn’t do things as quickly or efficiently as they should have.

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Part 1 Preliminary 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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