Commonwealth Numbered Acts Commonwealth Numbered Acts(1) This section applies to:
(a) the Commonwealth; and
(b) a Commonwealth entity; and
(c) a Commonwealth contractor; and
(d) an employee or agent of a person mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c).
(2) A person to whom this section applies may, in relation to the selected site, do anything necessary for or incidental to any or all of the following:
(a) gathering or preparing information for a Commonwealth regulatory scheme that relates to:
(i) the construction or operation of a facility; or
(ii) anything done in preparation for the construction or operation of a facility;
(b) conducting activities that relate to gathering or preparing information for such a regulatory scheme;
(c) preparing the selected site for a facility;
(d) preparing to construct and operate a facility;
(e) constructing a facility;
(f) constructing roads on, or grading, land in a State or Territory;
(g) erecting fences and other access controls on land specified in the declaration under subsection 14(4);
(h) operating a facility;
(i) maintaining a facility;
(j) keeping a facility safe;
(k) decommissioning a facility.
(3) Without limiting subsection (2), the person may, under that subsection, do a thing mentioned in subsection 11(3) in relation to the selected site.
(4) Subsection (2) extends to doing things outside the selected site.
(5) A person to whom this section applies may, in relation to the selected site:
(a) transport (including through a State or Territory) people and materials (including controlled material) to or from a facility; and
(b) use transport infrastructure for that transport.