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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

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

66: Return of substantive application

You could also call this:

“When the panel stops reviewing your application for too long, they decide to return it or start again”

When a panel stops looking at your application for more than 50 working days, they need to decide what to do next. They can either give your application back to you or start looking at it again.

If the panel decides to give your application back, they need to tell you why in writing. They also need to let other people know about their decision, including the groups they told when they first stopped looking at your application.

If you get your application back and want to try again, you need to send it in as if it’s a brand new application.

The panel can stop looking at your application more than once, but they can’t stop for more than 50 working days in total.

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

66Return of substantive application

  1. This section applies if 50 working days have elapsed since the processing of a substantive application was suspended under section 64(3).

  2. A panel must decide whether to—

  3. return the substantive application to the applicant; or
    1. resume processing the application.

      1. The decision of a panel under this section must be notified in writing to—

      2. the persons or groups notified under section 64(4); and
        1. the relevant administering agencies.

          1. If a panel decides to return the substantive application, it must be returned together with written reasons for its return.

          2. If a substantive application that has been returned is lodged again with the EPA, the application must be treated as a new application.

          3. If a substantive application is suspended more than once, the total number of working days during which processing is suspended must not be more than 50.

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          • 2020 No 35 Schedule 6 cl 24