60Certain gas infrastructure developments exempt from requiring planning approval

60 Certain gas infrastructure developments exempt from requiring planning approval

(1)  In this section –

development, of new gas infrastructure, includes –

(a) the installation, construction, inspection and commissioning of that new gas infrastructure (and any co-located telecommunications infrastructure); and

(b) if the new gas infrastructure (or any co-located telecommunications infrastructure) makes use of existing gas infrastructure – the upgrading of that existing gas infrastructure for the purposes of the new gas infrastructure (or co-located telecommunications infrastructure).

(2)  Despite the Land Use Planning and Approvals Act 1993 , if –

(a) a licensee proposes to carry out work on the development of gas infrastructure, including any necessary excavation of land; and

(b) the work is of a prescribed kind and meets prescribed criteria –

the work does not require a permit under the Land Use Planning and Approvals Act 1993 .

(3)  Subsection (2) does not apply in respect of a transmission pipeline.