New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PIPELINES ACT 1967 - SECT 13

13 Manner of making applications for licences

(1) An application under section 12:

(a) is to be in a form approved by the Minister,

(b) shall be made in the prescribed manner,

(c) shall be accompanied by particulars of:

(i) the design and construction of the proposed pipeline,

(ii) the size and capacity of the proposed pipeline,

(iii) the substance intended to be conveyed through the proposed pipeline,

(iv) the proposals of the applicant for work and expenditure in respect of the construction of the proposed pipeline,

(v) the technical qualifications of the applicant and of his or her employees,

(vi) the technical advice available to the applicant,

(vii) the financial resources available to the applicant,

(d) shall be accompanied by a plan, drawn in the prescribed manner:

(i) showing the location of:

(a) the route of the proposed pipeline,

(b) the situation of any proposed apparatus or works, and

(c) the lands (if any) proposed to be used for the purpose of gaining access to the proposed pipeline or proposed apparatus or works, and

(ii) on which shall be identified the lands or easements over lands referred to in paragraph (f),

(e) shall be accompanied by particulars of any agreements entered into, or proposed to be entered into, by the applicant for the acquisition by him or her of, or of easements over, the lands shown in the plan referred to in paragraph (d),

(f) shall specify, in relation to each part of the proposed pipeline, particulars of the lands, or the easements over lands, acquired or agreed to be acquired, and particulars of the lands, and of easements over lands, in respect of which no agreement for acquisition by the applicant has been reached, for the purpose of constructing and operating the proposed pipeline or gaining access to the proposed pipeline,

(g) shall be accompanied by copies of the notification caused to be published by the applicant in accordance with the provisions of subsection (3),

(ga) must be accompanied by evidence that the applicant has complied with any requirement on the applicant under subsection (4) to serve a copy of a notification on a public authority,

(h) may set out any other matters that the applicant wishes the Minister to consider, and

(i) shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee.

(2) The applicant must, if required to do so by notice in writing served on the applicant by the Minister, furnish:

(a) to the Minister, and

(b) to each public authority (if any) on which the applicant was required, under subsection (4), to serve a copy of a notification under subsection (3),

within the time specified in the notice, further information in writing in connection with the application, as required by the notice.

(3) Not less than seven days before a person makes an application under section 12, he or she shall cause to be published in two daily newspapers circulating throughout New South Wales a notification setting out particulars of the proposed application.

(4) If the regulations so require, a copy of the notification under subsection (3) must be served by the applicant on such public authorities as may be prescribed within such period as may be prescribed.