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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

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

61: EPA may direct suspension in processing substantive application

You could also call this:

"The EPA can pause your application if you haven't paid their costs, and will restart it when you pay."

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The EPA can stop working on your application if you have not paid the costs they can claim. They must tell the panel, local authorities, and you that they have stopped working on it. They must also tell the person who is giving them advice or a report, if that has not been provided yet, and the chief executive who is making a recommendation, if that has not been made yet. They must tell anyone who has been asked to comment on your application as well.

If you pay the costs, the EPA must start working on your application again and tell everyone they told about the stoppage. When the EPA stops or starts working on your application, they must tell the panel and the people giving advice or making recommendations, and those people must also stop or start working on it.

The EPA will only start working on your application again after you have paid the costs they can claim, and they will tell everyone about it.

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Panel consideration of substantive application: Suspension of processing substantive application

61EPA may direct suspension in processing substantive application

  1. If the applicant has not paid the costs recoverable by the EPA, the EPA may suspend the processing of the application and must give notice of the suspension to—

  2. the panel; and
    1. the relevant local authorities; and
      1. the applicant; and
        1. if advice or a report has been requested from a person under section 51 and is yet to be provided to the EPA, that person; and
          1. if a recommendation has been requested from the relevant chief executive under section 48 and is yet to be made, the relevant chief executive; and
            1. if persons or groups have been invited to provide comments under section 35 or 53, those persons or groups.

              1. If the applicant subsequently pays the costs recoverable by the EPA, the EPA must resume processing the substantive application and must give notice of the resumption to the persons notified of the suspension.

              2. The panel and a person referred to in subsection (1)(d) or (e) must—

              3. suspend processing of the substantive application if they receive a notice under subsection (1); and
                1. resume processing of the application if they receive a notice under subsection (2).

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