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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

Fast-track approvals process - Steps before lodging substantive application - Preliminary steps for application for land exchange

33: Land exchange application lodged with Director-General of Conservation

You could also call this:

"Apply to swap land with the government by lodging an application with the Director-General of Conservation"

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If you want to apply for a land exchange, you must first lodge an application with the Director-General of Conservation. You need to include the information set out in clause 24 of Schedule 6, as well as other information relevant to the land exchange. This other information depends on whether your project is listed or unlisted, and may include details required under section 43(2) or information from your referral application.

The Director-General of Conservation will then give written notice to the panel convener that they have received your application. You cannot lodge your application unless you have paid any fees, charges, or levies that are required. If there are multiple people authorised to make decisions about your project, any one of them can lodge the application on behalf of all of them.

When the Director-General of Conservation refers to the applicant in sections 34 to 36, they will be referring to the person who lodged the application if there are multiple authorised people.

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Part 2Fast-track approvals process
Steps before lodging substantive application: Preliminary steps for application for land exchange

33Land exchange application lodged with Director-General of Conservation

  1. Before lodging the substantive application, the authorised person for the project must lodge with the Director-General of Conservation a land exchange application that consists of—

  2. the information set out in clause 24 of Schedule 6; and
    1. the information relevant to the land exchange that,—
      1. in the case of a listed project, is required under section 43(2):
        1. in the case of an unlisted project, was contained in the referral application; and
        2. any information specified by the Minister under section 27(3)(c)(ii).

          1. The Director-General of Conservation must give written notice of the receipt of a land exchange application to the panel convener.

          2. The information must not be lodged unless any fee, charge, or levy payable under regulations in respect of the land exchange application is paid.

          3. If there is more than 1 authorised person for a project, any 1 of the authorised persons may comply with subsection (1) on behalf of all of them (and, if that occurs, each reference in sections 34 to 36 to the applicant must be read as a reference to that authorised person).

          Notes
          • Section 33(1): editorial change made by the PCO, on , under sections 86(1) and 87(l)(i) of the Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 58).