Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2022C00333:section:41:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2022C00333
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 41 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 15657–18425

the preceding paragraphs of this subsection.
 (2AAA) An authority under this section may, for the purposes of paragraph (2)(cb), authorize the carrying on of specified operations in relation to the whole, or a specified part, of the land in the Ranger Project Area.
 (2AAB) To avoid doubt, if an authority under this section is in force in relation to an area of land, conditions or restrictions specified in the authority, or requirements imposed by the authority, may have the effect of prohibiting the person or persons on whom the authority has been conferred from doing a thing referred to in a paragraph in subsection (2) in relation to that land.
 (2AA) Operations carried on on the Ranger Project Area by the person or persons specified in an authority under this section (being an authority, whether granted before or after the commencement of this subsection, that authorizes, or purports to authorize, that person, or those persons as joint venturers, to carry on, on behalf of the Commonwealth, operations in accordance with this section on the Ranger Project Area subject to conditions and restrictions specified in the authority) shall, if carried on as provided by the authority and in accordance with the Ranger Project agreement, be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be carried on on behalf of the Commonwealth and to be authorized by the authority.
 (2AB) The reference in subsection (2AA) to the Ranger Project agreement shall be construed as a reference to the agreement known as the Ranger Uranium Project Government Agreement that was made on 9 January 1979 between the Commonwealth, Peko‑Wallsend Operations Ltd., Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australasia Limited and the Commission or, if that agreement is amended, that agreement as amended.

Conditions, restrictions and requirements
 (2AC) An authority under this section may specify conditions or restrictions to which the authority is subject.
 (2AD) An authority under this section may impose requirements on the person or persons on whom the authority has been conferred.
 (2AE) Without limiting subsection (2AD), the requirements that may be imposed by an authority under this section include rehabilitation requirements in relation to the whole, or a part, of the land in the Ranger Project Area.

Period when authority is in force
 (2A) Subject to Division 3, an authority under this section continues in force for the period for which the authority is conferred unless, before the expiration of that period, the authority:
 (a) is varied to extend the period for which the authority is in force; or
 (b) terminates under a provision of this Act or under a provision of the authority; or
 (c) is revoked under a provision of this Act or under a provision of the authority.
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