7AProcess for dealing with an application for approval

7A Process for dealing with an application for approval

7A Process for dealing with an application for approval

(1) For all applications for an approval, IPART must invite submissions—

(a) from the Department of the Public Service responsible to the Minister administering this Part, and

(b) from the Department of the Public Service responsible to the Minister administering the Public Health Act 2010, and

(c) as otherwise required by the regulations.

(2) In addition, if the application is for a scheme approval, IPART must also invite submissions from—

(a) the public, by notice published on IPART’s website and otherwise as considered appropriate by IPART, and

(b) the council for the local government area within which the proposed area of operations of the scheme is located or to whose infrastructure the scheme is to be connected, and

(c) the Department of the Public Service responsible to the Minister administering the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, and

(d) if a licence under the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 may also be required—the appropriate regulatory authority under that Act, and

(e) if the infrastructure is or is proposed to be within the area of operations of a public water utility—the public water utility, and

(f) if an authorisation, however described, under the Water Management Act 2000 may also be required—the Department of the Public Service responsible to the Minister administering that Act, Chapter 3.

(3) An invitation to make submissions on an application must—

(a) allow at least 28 days for submissions to be made, and

(b) be accompanied by a copy of the application, other than material that IPART considers to be confidential, or set out how a copy of the application may be obtained.

(4) IPART must not accept a variation of an application after an invitation to make submissions has been given unless satisfied that—