19Research and demonstration licences—applications for licences that cover the same area

19 Research and demonstration licences—applications for licences that cover the same area

(1) If applications for research and demonstration licences cover wholly or partly the same area, the Registrar may notify the applicants of the overlap and invite the applicants to revise and resubmit their applications to remove the overlap. (2) The notice and invitation: (a) must be in writing; and (b) must set out, for each other applicant whose application overlaps the applicant’s application: (i) the area or areas of overlap; and (ii) the name of the other applicant; and (iii) the kind of project that the other applicant proposes to carry out; and (c) may include such other information as the Registrar considers reasonable about the applications mentioned in paragraph (b); and (d) may include such information as the Registrar considers reasonable about other applications that cover areas adjacent to, or nearby, the area covered by the applicant’s application; and (e) must specify the day on or before which an application, as revised, must be resubmitted; and (f) must inform the applicant that any revised application must be in accordance with section 20. (3) Subsections 18(2) to (4) apply to an application that is revised and resubmitted in accordance with an invitation under this section. For this purpose, treat subsection 18(2) as requiring the application to be made on or before the day specified under paragraph (2)(e) of this section. (4) An applicant who revises an application in response to the invitation is not required to pay any additional fee for revising or resubmitting the application. (5) If an applicant revises and resubmits an application in response to the invitation on or before the day specified under paragraph (2)(e), and the revised application is in accordance with section 20, then, after that day: (a) the revised application replaces the original application; and (b) the original application is to be disregarded.

Note: If the revised application is not in accordance with section 20, the original application remains in effect.