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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

Fast-track approvals process - Referral of project to fast-track approvals process - Process after Minister receives referral application

20: Minister may request information

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“The Minister can ask for more details about an application”

If someone sends an application for a referral, the Minister can ask for more information about it. The Minister can ask the person who sent the application, the local councils, or other government agencies for this extra information. The Minister will tell them when they need to give the information by.

The Minister must look at any information they get before the deadline. If information comes in late, the Minister doesn’t have to look at it, but they can if they want to. They can only do this if they haven’t already made a decision about the application.

The Minister can ask for more information at any time before they make their final decision about the application. The decision is made under section 21 of the law.

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Part 2 Fast-track approvals process
Referral of project to fast-track approvals process: Process after Minister receives referral application

20Minister may request information

  1. The Minister may request further information about a referral application from the applicant (or, if the application is lodged by more than 1 person, any of those persons), the relevant local authorities, or the relevant administering agencies to be provided within the time frame specified in the request.

  2. The Minister—

  3. must consider any information received within that time frame:
    1. is not required to consider any information received after that time frame, but may do so, in the Minister's absolute discretion, as long as the Minister has not already made a decision on the referral application under section 21.

      1. A request may be made at any time before a decision on the referral application is made under section 21.

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