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GEOTHERMAL ENERGY ACT 2010 No. 31 - SECT 383

383 Practice manual

(1) The chief executive may keep, in the way the chief executive considers appropriate, a manual (however called) about geothermal tenure administration practice to guide and inform persons dealing with the department.

(2) The manual may include--

(a) directions about--
(i) what information, documents or instruments (material) a person may or must give; and
(ii) how or when requested material must be given; and
(iii) the format of requested material; and
(b) practices to ensure there is consistency and efficiency in geothermal tenure administration processes.

(3) If--

(a) a person is required or permitted to give the Minister or the chief executive (the official) information for a particular purpose relating to this Act; and
(b) this Act does not provide for how the information may or must be given to the official for the purpose; and
(c) the person gives the official the information in the way required or permitted under the manual;

the person is taken to have given the official the information for the purpose.

(4) The information must be given at--

(a) if the manual states a particular office of the department where the information must be given (a required office)--that office; or
(b) if the manual does not state a required office and the information relates to a particular application--the department's office where the application was lodged; or
(c) otherwise--the office of the chief executive.

(5) The chief executive must--

(a) keep a copy of the manual and a record (however called) of each part of the manual, including the dates when each part was published or superseded; and
(b) make the manual and the record available to the public in the way the chief executive considers appropriate.

(6) Without limiting subsection (5), the chief executive must ensure an up-to-date copy of the manual and the record are available to be read free of charge--

(a) on the department's website; and
(b) if information relates to a particular application--at the department's office where the application was made.


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