Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00271:section:23
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00271
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 23
Character Range: 36255–37910

23  Authority to conduct activities
 (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.