13Application for licence

13 Application for licence (1) An application for a licence may be made by a person who: (a) at the time of making the application holds, or within 6 months before making the application has held, a permit; or (b) is able to satisfy the Minister that, notwithstanding that he has never, or has not within the period of 6 months before making the application, held a permit, has obtained sufficient data relating to the route of the proposed pipeline to submit an application which complies with subsection (2). (2) An application for a licence: (b) shall be accompanied by particulars of: (i) the design and construction of the proposed pipeline; (ii) the provisions for cathodic protection of the proposed pipeline; (iii) the size and capacity of the proposed pipeline; (iv) the substance intended to be conveyed through the proposed pipeline; (v) the proposals of the applicant for work and expenditure in respect of the construction of the proposed pipeline; (vi) the machinery and equipment that the applicant intends to use in the construction of the proposed pipeline; (vii) the technical qualifications of the applicant and of his employees; (viii) the technical advice available to the applicant; and (ix) the financial resources available to the applicant; (c) shall be accompanied by a plan, drawn in the prescribed manner: (i) showing: (A) the route of the proposed pipeline; (BA) the land that is proposed by the applicant to be the licence area;

Energy Pipelines Act 1981 15 (BB) the corridor of land, 25 m wide, extending for 12.5 m on either side of the route of the proposed pipeline specified under subparagraph (A); (B) the situation of proposed apparatus or works; and (C) the land, if any, proposed to be used for the purpose of gaining access to the proposed pipeline and proposed apparatus or works; and (ii) on which shall be identified the land, or easements over land, referred to in paragraph (e); (d) shall be accompanied by particulars of agreements entered into, or proposed to be entered into, by the applicant for the acquisition by him of, or of easements over, the land shown in the plan referred to in paragraph (c); (da) shall specify: (i) the name and address of each person whose operations on or interest in the land shown in the plan under paragraph (c) in accordance with paragraph (c)(i)(BB) may be affected by the operation of section 66 if the pipeline to which the application relates were to be constructed; and (ii) the agreement or arrangement, if any, made between the applicant and a person referred to in subparagraph (i) in relation to the person's operations and interests; (e) shall specify, in relation to each part of the proposed pipeline, the proposed route of which is on or across Aboriginal land, within the meaning of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 of the Commonwealth, or on or across land held by the Commonwealth, particulars of the land, or the easements over land acquired or agreed to be acquired for the purpose of constructing and operating the proposed pipeline or gaining access to the proposed pipeline; (f) shall be accompanied by copies of the notices which the applicant has served under subsection (4); (g) may set out any other matters that the applicant wishes the Minister to consider; and (h) shall be accompanied by the fee prescribed by regulation.