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Lands Acquisition Act 1978
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(1) Subject to this section, a person authorised under section 29 may
enter and remain on the land specified in the authorisation for the
minimum period necessary for the reasonable investigation of the
suitability of the land for the proposal.
(2) A person authorised under section 29 shall:
(a) ensure that any work performed for the purposes of a survey
or investigation authorised under subsection (1) has as little
impact as possible on the land and on anything on or growing
on the land;
(b) subject to any agreement that has been entered into with the
owner of the land or the registered native title body corporate
in respect of the land, at the end of the survey or investigation,
remove from the land anything that person brought onto the
land; and
(c) leave the land, as nearly as possible, in the same condition as
it was immediately before he entered onto the land.