(1)  Within 14 days after receiving a permit application, the Minister is to –

(a) publish notice of the permit application in a local newspaper; and

(b) if the proposed dam works are wholly or partly within a pipeline planning corridor – notify, in writing, the person licensed under the Gas Pipelines Act 2000 to operate the pipeline in that corridor of the permit application; and

(c) if the applicant is not the owner of the land on which the proposed dam works would be undertaken – notify the owner of the land, in writing, of the permit application; and

(d) if the Minister is of the opinion that the proposed dam works may have an impact on any land adjoining the land on which the proposed dam works would be undertaken – notify the owner of the adjoining land; and

(e) if the Minister is of the opinion that it is in the public interest to do so – notify any other person the Minister thinks fit.

(2)  A notice under subsection (1) is to –

(a) specify the name of the applicant, details of the application and any other information that the Minister considers appropriate; and

(b) specify that a copy of the permit application, and of all plans and other documents lodged with the application, is available for inspection by the public for the period during which representations may be made under section 146(1) ; and

(c) specify the place at which, and the hours during which, those copies are available for inspection by the public; and

(d) state –

(i) that written representations may be made to the Minister by any person who may be affected by the dam works if the permit application is granted or who is a person to whom notice is given under subsection (1)(d) or (e) ; and

(ii) the period during which the representations may be made; and

(iii) the manner in which, and the address at which, the representations may be lodged with the Minister.

(3)  The period in which representations may be lodged under subsection (2)(d) is to be a period of not less than 14 days commencing on the day notice of the application is published in a local newspaper under subsection (1)(a) .