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STATE DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS ORGANISATION ACT 1971 - SECT 143 How to apply for investigator’s authority

STATE DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS ORGANISATION ACT 1971 - SECT 143

How to apply for investigator’s authority

143 How to apply for investigator’s authority

(1) This section applies if the person proposing the infrastructure facility can not successfully negotiate entry to the land with the owner.
(2) The person may apply to the Coordinator-General for an investigator’s authority for the land.
(3) The applicant must give the Coordinator-General the following in support of the application—
(a) details of the proposed facility, including the land on which the facility is proposed to be located;
(b) the likely demand for the services associated with the proposed facility;
(c) advice as to how the proposed facility would satisfy an identified need;
(d) details of the applicant’s financial and technical capacity to implement the proposed facility;
(e) details of the steps the applicant has taken, or tried to take, to satisfy its obligations under subsection (1) ;
(f) any other information the Coordinator-General considers is necessary to assess the application.
(4) The application must be in writing and state the following information—
(a) the land intended to be entered under the authority;
(b) the purpose for which the authority is sought;
(c) details of the nature of the activities proposed to be conducted on the land;
(d) the period for which the authority is sought.
(5) The Coordinator-General must advise the owner—
(a) that an application for an authority has been made for the land; and
(b) the powers a person granted an authority may exercise under this subdivision.