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:

"Asking for permission to swap land before starting a big project"

Before you can make a big application for a project, you need to do something called a land exchange application. You need to give this to the Director-General of Conservation. Here's what you need to include in your land exchange application:

You need to provide the information listed in clause 24 of Schedule 6. You also need to give information about the land exchange. If your project is on a special list, you need to include the information required by section 43(2). If it's not on the list, you need to include the information that was in your referral application. You also need to include any extra information the Minister has asked for.

After you give in your land exchange application, the Director-General of Conservation will tell the panel convener in writing that they've received it.

You can't give in your application unless you've paid any fees or charges that you need to pay.

If there's more than one person allowed to make the application for a project, any one of those people can do this part. If one person does it, when the rules talk about 'the applicant' in sections 34 to 36, they mean that person.

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This page was last updated on 13 May 2025

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Topics:

Environment and resources > ConservationEnvironment and resources > Town planningHousing and property > Land use

32: Sections 33 to 36 apply to land exchange, or

"Rules for swapping land in special projects"

34: Director-General of Conservation decides whether application is complete and within scope, or

"Conservation boss checks if your land swap request is ready and fits the rules"

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

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

The Director-General of Conservation must give written notice of the receipt of a land exchange application to the panel convener.
The information must not be lodged unless any fee, charge, or levy payable under regulations in respect of the land exchange application is paid.
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 12 May 2025, under sections 86(1) and 87(l)(i) of the Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 58).