Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ANTARCTIC TREATY (ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION) ACT 1980 No. 103 of 1980 - SECT 9

9. (1) Subject to this section and to section 10, upon application made to the
Minister in accordance with the prescribed form or, if no form is prescribed,
a form approved by him, the Minister may, upon such conditions as he thinks
fit, grant to a person a permit in writing authorizing the person to carry on
during a specified period any specified activity or activities of the kind or
kinds referred to in the provisions of sub-sections 19 (1) and (2) (other than
paragraphs (1) (e), (1) (g), (2) (f) and (2) (g)).

(2) In deciding whether to grant a permit and in determining the conditions
and limitations subject to which a permit is to be granted, the Minister shall
have due regard to the purposes and principles of the Agreed Measures.

(3) An application made under sub-section (1) by an expedition or organization
shall specify-

   (a)  in the case of an expedition-every member of the expedition; or

   (b)  in the case of an organization-every person authorized by the
        organization to act on its behalf, and the permit may be expressed to
        apply to all those members or persons or to such of them as are
        specified in the permit.

(4) Where, subsequent to the grant of a permit to an organization, the persons
authorized to act on behalf of the organization include a person or persons
not referred to in sub-section (3), the organization shall forthwith inform
the Minister accordingly, and the Minister may, by notice in writing to the
organization, extend or refuse to extend the application of the permit to that
person or those persons.

(5) The Minister shall cause to be kept, in such manner and at such place as
he directs, a register of permits in force from time to time, showing the
purpose for which and the conditions upon which each permit was granted and
such other matters relating to each permit as the Minister thinks fit.

(6) Such fees as are prescribed are payable in respect of grants of permits.
(7) In this section, "grant" includes grant by way of renewal.