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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

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

65: Resumption in processing of substantive application following suspension under section 64

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"What happens when your application is unsuspended and processed again"

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If you got a suspension under section 64(3), you can ask the EPA to start processing your application again. The panel convener or the panel must start processing your application again if you ask them to. The panel can also decide to start processing your application again without you asking, as stated in section 66(2)(b). When the panel convener or the panel starts processing your application again, the EPA will send a notice to the people who were told about the suspension, as stated in section 64(4). Some people will have to start processing your application again if they get this notice, as stated in section 64(4)(b) or (c).

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Panel consideration of substantive application: Suspension of processing substantive application

65Resumption in processing of substantive application following suspension under section 64

  1. An applicant granted a suspension under section 64(3) may request in writing to the EPA that the processing of the substantive application be resumed.

  2. If a request is made under subsection (1), the panel convener or the panel must resume processing the substantive application.

  3. The panel may decide under section 66(2)(b) to resume processing the substantive application in the absence of a request under subsection (1).

  4. If the panel convener or a panel resumes processing a substantive application under subsection (2) or (3), the EPA must give written notice of that fact, specifying the date on which the panel convener or the panel resumed processing, to the persons or groups notified of the suspension under section 64(4).

  5. A person referred to in section 64(4)(b) or (c) must resume processing the substantive application if they receive a notice under subsection (4).

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Notes
  • Section 65(2): amended, on , by section 35(1) of the Fast-track Approvals Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 78).
  • Section 65(4): amended, on , by section 35(1) of the Fast-track Approvals Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 78).
  • Section 65(4): amended, on , by section 35(2) of the Fast-track Approvals Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 78).