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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:

“Telling Conservation about swapping land before your big request”

Before you can make your main application, you need to give the Department of Conservation some information about exchanging land. This is called a land exchange application. You need to include specific details about the land exchange. The exact information you need to provide depends on whether your project is listed or not.

You also need to include any extra information the Minister has asked for. The Director-General of Conservation will tell the panel convener in writing when they receive your application.

You can’t submit this information unless you’ve paid any fees or charges for the land exchange application. If there’s more than one person authorised for the project, any one of you can submit this information for everyone.

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Part 2 Fast-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 Department 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).