59DNotices to be given by Joint Authority

#### 59D Notices to be given by Joint Authority (1) This section applies if the Joint Authority is prepared to grant an infrastructure licence (the proposed infrastructure licence) in respect of a place in a block that: (a) is the subject of a permit, lease, licence, infrastructure licence, special prospecting authority or access authority; or (b) is, or is proposed to be, transected by a pipeline in accordance with the provisions of a pipeline licence; of which the registered holder is a person other than the applicant. (2) The Joint Authority must not inform the applicant under section 59C that the Joint Authority is prepared to grant the proposed infrastructure licence unless the Joint Authority: (a) has, by written notice served on the registered holder referred to in subsection (1), given not less than one month’s notice that the Authority is prepared to grant the proposed infrastructure licence; and (b) has served a copy of the notice on such other persons (if any) as the Authority thinks fit; and (c) has, in the notice: (i) given particulars of the proposed infrastructure licence; and (ii) specified a date, on or before which a person on whom the notice, or a copy of the notice, is served may, by writing served on the Authority, submit any matters that the person wishes the Authority to consider; and (d) has taken into account any matters so submitted on or before the specified date by a person on whom the first‑mentioned notice, or a copy of it, has been served. (3) Subsection (2) does not apply: (a) in respect of the registered holder of a permit, lease, licence, infrastructure licence or pipeline licence if the registered holder has consented in writing to the grant of the proposed infrastructure licence; or (b) in respect of the registered holder of a special prospecting authority or an access authority if: (i) the registered holder has consented in writing to the grant of the proposed infrastructure licence; or (ii) the special prospecting authority or access authority will expire before any construction or operation of facilities under the proposed infrastructure licence would occur.