78Lodgment, acceptance and registration of caveat

78 Lodgment, acceptance and registration of caveat (1) A person claiming a geothermal authority interest in a geothermal authority or geothermal authority application (an affected authority) may lodge with the Minister a caveat forbidding the registration, except in accordance with section 81, of any dealing with the affected authority that is received by the Minister after the Minister has accepted the caveat.

Geothermal Energy Act 2009 37 (2) The caveat must be: (a) in the approved form; and (b) state the name of the caveator and the address at which the caveator may be given notices; and (c) state the interest claimed in the affected authority; and (d) be signed by the caveator or the caveator's representative. (3) The Minister may accept the caveat and, as soon as practicable after doing so, must enter it in the register. Note for subsection (3) Section 112(1) and (2) has the effect that the Minister need not accept the caveat if it does not include the information required by this section or if a fee prescribed for lodging the caveat has not been paid. (4) The caveat comes into force when the Minister accepts the caveat.