20ANotification of application and reference to Secretary or Judge

20A Notification of application and reference to Secretary or Judge

20A Notification of application and reference to Secretary or Judge

(1) On application being made for an authority the Ministerial Corporation shall cause a notice giving particulars of the application to be published in the Gazette and in such other manner as the Ministerial Corporation is satisfied is likely to bring the notice to the attention of members of the public in the district where the work is or is proposed to be situated.

(1AA) Subsection (1) does not require the Ministerial Corporation to cause to be published a notice giving particulars of an application unless it is satisfied that each part of the land to which the application relates is land which one or more of the applicants occupies or occupy or to which one or more of the applicants will obtain the right of occupation.

(1A) Where, at the time the application is made, the work is, or is proposed to be, situated within a declared local area, any—

(a) local occupier, or

(b) statutory authority,

whose interests may be affected by the granting of the application may, within 28 days after the date of publication of the later of the advertisements referred to in subsection (1), lodge with the Ministerial Corporation an objection thereto.

(1B) Where, at the time the application is made, the work is not, or is not proposed to be, situated within a declared local area, any person whose interests may be affected by the granting of the application may, within 28 days after the date of the later of the advertisements referred to in subsection (1), lodge with the Ministerial Corporation an objection thereto.

(1C) An objection referred to in subsection (1A) or (1B) shall be in writing and shall specify the grounds of objection.

(1D) If, after the application is advertised—

(a) the applicant amends the application as advertised, and

(b) in the opinion of the Ministerial Corporation the changes warrant the advertising of the application as amended,

the Ministerial Corporation shall advertise the amended application in the manner referred to in subsection (1) and—

(c) the provisions of this section shall apply to the amended application as if it were a new application, and