60ZVParticipating regulator and Panel may seek amended major project impact statement

60ZV Participating regulator and Panel may seek amended major project impact statement

[Section 60ZV Inserted by No. 21 of 2020, s. 12, Applied:28 Oct 2020]

(1)  A participating regulator that has been provided under section 60ZS(4) with a copy of a major project impact statement may, within 21 days or a longer period allowed by the Minister, give to the Panel a notice requesting the Panel to require the proponent to provide to the Panel a major project impact statement that has been amended so as to contain the information specified in the notice.

(2)  The information specified in a notice under subsection (1) from a participating regulator is to be information that the participating regulator considers to be necessary to enable the regulator to determine the contents of the regulator’s final advice in relation to the major project.

(3)  The Panel, within 7 days after receiving under subsection (1) a notice from a participating regulator in relation to a major project impact statement, must, by notice to the proponent, request the proponent to provide to the Panel, within a period specified in the notice to the proponent, the major project impact statement amended so as to contain the information specified in the notice to the proponent.

(4)  The information specified in the notice to the proponent under subsection (3) is to be the information specified in the notice received by the Panel under subsection (1) .

(5)  The Panel may only give a notice to the proponent under subsection (3) within the period of 42 days, or a longer period allowed by the Minister, after the Panel has received from the proponent under section 60ZS a major project impact statement in relation to the major project.

(6)  A proponent to whom a notice is given under subsection (3) is to take all reasonable steps to provide to the Panel, as soon as practicable but in any case within the period specified in the notice, the major project impact statement amended so as to contain the information specified in the notice.

(7)  The Panel, within 7 days after a major project impact statement, amended so as to contain the information specified in the notice under , is provided to the Panel under , must –