32DProvisions relating to applications for low-impact licence

32D Provisions relating to applications for low-impact licence

32D Provisions relating to applications for low-impact licence

(1) A person may not be granted a low-impact exploration licence unless notice of the application for the licence has been served on all—

(a) registered native title bodies corporate, and

(b) registered native title claimants, and

(c) representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander bodies,

in relation to any of the land that will be affected by the proposed prospecting operations to be authorised by the licence.

(2) The notice must contain a map or other description of the land over which the exploration licence is sought and a description of the kind of prospecting operations that may be authorised by the licence.

(3) An applicant may request the Minister to grant a low-impact exploration licence either at the time the application for a licence is made or at any later time before the grant of the licence.

(4) The regulations may make other provision for or with respect to the making and grant of applications for low-impact exploration licences.

(5) In this section, application includes tender.

ss 32A–32E: Ins 1998 No 88, Sch 5 [1].