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GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE ACT 2009 No. 3 - SECT 413

413 Additional information may be required about application

(1) If the Minister is deciding or is required to decide an application under this Act, the Minister may by notice require the applicant to give the Minister within a stated reasonable period--

(a) additional information about, or a document relevant to, the application; or
Example--
The application is for a GHG tenure. The Minister may require a document, prepared by an appropriately qualified person, independently verifying geological or predictive migration data given in the proposed work program or development plan for the GHG tenure.
(b) an independent report by an appropriately qualified person or a statutory declaration by verifying all or any of the following--
(i) any information included in the application;
(ii) any additional information required under paragraph (a);
(iii) if the application is for a GHG tenure--that the applicant meets the relevant capability criteria under chapter 2 or 3.

(2) For subsection (1)(a), if the application is for a GHG authority, a required document may include a survey or re-survey of the area of the proposed authority carried out by a cadastral surveyor under the Surveyors Act 2003.

(3) For subsection (1)(b), the notice may require--

(a) the statutory declaration to be made by an appropriately qualified independent person or by the applicant; and
(b) if the applicant is a corporation--to be made for the applicant by an executive officer of the applicant.

(4) If the applicant does not comply with the requirement, the Minister may refuse the application.

(5) The applicant must pay any costs incurred in complying with the notice.



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