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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

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"What happens to your application after it's been on hold for a while"

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If 50 working days pass since your substantive application was suspended under section 64(3), a panel must decide what to do with it. You will know what the panel decides because they must tell you and other relevant people in writing. The panel can either return your application or start processing it again. If the panel returns your application, they must give you a reason why. You can lodge your application again, but it will be treated as a new one. If your application is suspended more than once, the total time it is suspended cannot be more than 100 working days. The panel's decision must be notified to the people who were told about the suspension under section 64(4) and the relevant agencies. You will be told what the panel decides in writing. This helps you know what is happening with your application.

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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 the panel convener or 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 the panel convener or 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 100.

          Compare
          • 2020 No 35 Schedule 6 cl 24
          Notes
          • Section 66(3): amended, on , by section 36(1) of the Fast-track Approvals Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 78).
          • Section 66(4): amended, on , by section 36(1) of the Fast-track Approvals Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 78).
          • Section 66(6): amended, on , by section 36(2) of the Fast-track Approvals Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 78).