44—Application for retention lease
(1) An application for
a retention lease—
(a) must
be made in a manner and form determined by the Minister; and
(b) must
identify the boundaries of the land in respect of which the lease is being
sought in accordance with the requirements of section 56E; and
(c)
except as provided by the regulations, must be accompanied by a retention
proposal—
(i)
specifying the operations or steps that are proposed to
be carried out in order for the applicant to be in a position to make an
application for a mining lease; and
(ii)
setting out—
(A) an assessment of the environmental
impacts of any proposed authorised operations to be carried out under the
lease; and
(B) an outline of the measures that the
applicant intends to take to manage, limit or remedy those impacts; and
(C) a statement of the environmental
outcomes that are accordingly expected to occur; and
(iii)
incorporating a draft statement of the criteria to be
adopted to measure those environmental outcomes, in a form prescribed by the
regulations; and
(iv)
setting out the results of the consultation undertaken in
connection with any proposed operations in accordance with the regulations;
and
(d) must
be accompanied by such other information as may be prescribed by the
regulations; and
(e) must
be accompanied by the prescribed fee.
(2) The Minister may
require the applicant to furnish the Minister with any additional information
specified by the Minister (and that information must be furnished within any
period specified by the Minister).
(3) The Minister may
exempt an applicant from complying with specified requirements of this section
if the retention lease is to be granted under section 37(2).