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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

Fast-track approvals process - Panel consideration of substantive application - Suspension of processing substantive application

64: Applicant may request suspension of processing substantive application

You could also call this:

"You can ask to pause your application for a while."

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You can ask the EPA to stop working on your substantive application for a while. You can make this request in writing to the EPA. The EPA will look at your request and decide what to do. You can only make this request after the EPA gives your application to the panel convener and before the panel makes a decision under section 81. The panel convener or the panel can choose to stop working on your application if you ask them to. If they agree to stop, the EPA will tell you and some other people when the work on your application was stopped. The EPA will tell you, and also some other people who are involved, like the person who is giving advice under section 51, or the chief executive who is making a recommendation under section 48. They will also tell people who were asked to give comments under section 35 or 53. If you are one of these people, you must stop working on the application when you get the notice. If the panel convener or the panel agrees to stop working on your application, some people will get a notice from the EPA. These people must stop working on your application when they get the notice. This means they cannot keep doing their part of the work until they are told to start again.

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Part 2Fast-track approvals process
Panel consideration of substantive application: Suspension of processing substantive application

64Applicant may request suspension of processing substantive application

  1. An applicant may make a written request to the EPA that processing of their substantive application be suspended.

  2. A request may be made only in the period between—

  3. the time when the EPA provides the substantive application to the panel convener; and
    1. the time when a panel makes its decisions under section 81 on the approvals sought in the application.

      1. When a request is made under subsection (1), the panel convener or, if a panel has been set up, the panel, may suspend the processing of a substantive application at their or its discretion.

      2. If the panel convener or a panel grants a suspension, the EPA must give notice of the date on which the panel convener or the panel suspended processing of the application to—

      3. the applicant; and
        1. if advice or a report has been requested from a person under section 51 and is yet to be provided to the EPA, that person; and
          1. if a recommendation has been requested from the relevant chief executive under section 48 and is yet to be made, the relevant chief executive; and
            1. if persons or groups have been invited to provide comments under section 35 or 53, those persons or groups.

              1. A person who receives a notice under subsection (4)(b) or (c) must suspend processing of the substantive application.

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              Notes
              • Section 64(2)(a): amended, on , by section 34(1) of the Fast-track Approvals Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 78).
              • Section 64(3): replaced, on , by section 34(2) of the Fast-track Approvals Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 78).
              • Section 64(4): amended, on , by section 34(3)(a) of the Fast-track Approvals Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 78).
              • Section 64(4): amended, on , by section 34(3)(b) of the Fast-track Approvals Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 78).