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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

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

63: Resumption in processing substantive application following suspension under section 62

You could also call this:

“Starting your application again after it was paused”

You can ask the Minister to stop the pause on your application at any time. If they do, they will tell you in writing and explain why.

If the Minister stops the pause before you change your application to ask for different approvals, the people looking at your application will start working on it again right away.

If you change your application to ask for different approvals before the Minister stops the pause, two things will happen:

  1. The new parts of your application will be treated like a brand new application.

  2. The original parts of your application will start being processed again, but they will follow the same timeline as the new parts.

In both cases, anyone who was told about the pause will start working on your application again when the Minister says it’s time to restart.

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Panel consideration of substantive application: Suspension of processing substantive application

63Resumption in processing substantive application following suspension under section 62

  1. The Minister may, at any time, by notice in writing with reasons, withdraw the direction given to the EPA under section 62.

  2. Subsection (3) applies if the Minister's direction is withdrawn before the substantive application is amended to seek the different or further approvals referred to in section 62(2).

  3. If this subsection applies, the panel and any person notified under section 62(3)(d) or (e) must resume processing the original substantive application from the date on which the Minister's direction is withdrawn.

  4. Subsection (5) applies if a substantive application is amended to seek the further or different approvals referred to in section 62(2) before the Minister's direction is withdrawn.

  5. If this subsection applies, the panel and any person notified under section 62(3)(d) or (e) must—

  6. process the parts of the amended substantive application that relate to the further or different approvals as if they were a new substantive application (except for the purposes of section 81); and
    1. resume processing the parts of the amended substantive application that relate to the approvals originally sought but, in doing so, observe the time frames set out in this Act that apply to the parts of the application described in paragraph (a).

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