60SBProject-related permit may be given to enable preliminary study activity

60SB Project-related permit may be given to enable preliminary study activity

[Section 60SB Inserted by No. 33 of 2022, s. 11, Applied:17 May 2023]

(1)  In this section –

preliminary study activity means an activity for the purposes of a preliminary study that is specified in a statement included, in accordance with section 60F(1A) , in the major project proposal in relation to the major project.

(2)  A proponent of a major project may request the Commission to authorise under subsection (3) a preliminary study activity that is not permitted under a planning scheme unless there is a permit in relation to the activity.

(3)  The Commission may, within 21 days after receiving from a proponent of a major project a request under subsection (2) in relation to a preliminary study activity, authorise, on the conditions or restrictions that the Commission thinks fit, all or part of the activity to be carried out on land to which the major project relates.

(4)  A proponent of a major project may request a person or body, to whom an application for a project-related permit may be made under an Act, to issue to the proponent a project-related permit, authorising the carrying out of all or part of a preliminary study activity specified in the request.

(5)  A person or body to whom an application for a project-related permit may be made under an Act, must, within 21 days after receiving from a proponent of a major project a request under subsection (4) in relation to a preliminary study activity –

(a) issue to the proponent a project-related permit under subsection (6) ; or

(b) refuse to issue to the proponent a project-related permit under subsection (6) and give notice, in writing, to the proponent, specifying –

(i) that the person or body has refused to issue a project-related permit; and

(ii) the reasons why the person or body has refused to issue a project-related permit.