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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:

"When the Minister stops an application, they can start it again and must say why in writing."

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If the Minister stops an application from being processed under section 62, they can start it again at any time. They must give a written notice with reasons to do this. You need to know what happens when the Minister's direction is withdrawn. If the application is not changed before the Minister's direction is withdrawn, the panel and some people must start processing the original application again from the date the direction is withdrawn.

If the application is changed to seek different approvals before the Minister's direction is withdrawn, the panel and some people must process the new parts of the application as if they were a new application. They must also start processing the original parts of the application again, but they must follow the time frames in the Act that apply to the new parts. The Minister's direction is given under section 62 and the time frames are set out in the Act, including section 81.

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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 Subsection (3) applies if the Minister's direction is withdrawn before the substantive application is amended to seek the different or further approvals referred to in section 62(2).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or (e) must resume processing the original substantive application from the date on which the Minister's direction is withdrawn.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is amended to seek the further or different approvals referred to in section 62(2) before the Minister's direction is withdrawn.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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