Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00818:section:20:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00818
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 20 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 75400–78083

projects came into force; or
 (b) if the Minister allows a longer period—that longer period.
 (4B) If the Minister does not make a decision on an application under subsection (4) before the later of the following times:
 (a) the end of the period of 90 days after the application is made;
 (b) if the Minister extends that period under subsection (4C)—the end of the extended period;
the Minister is taken, for the purposes of subsection (12), to have refused the application at that time.
 (4C) The Minister may, by written notice to the applicant or applicants, extend the period mentioned in subsection (4B) if the Minister is satisfied that it is necessary to do so to adequately consider the application.
 (5) A certificate under subsection (1) shall not be repealed, rescinded, revoked, amended or varied otherwise than:
 (a) under subsection (8);
 (b) pursuant to a decision of the Tribunal or an order of a court; or
 (c) to correct an error in the certificate.
 (6) A certificate under subsection (1) shall come into force on the issue of the certificate and continue in force until the issue of a subsequent certificate under that subsection specifying production licences that include such of the production licences specified in the first‑mentioned certificate as are in force at the time when the subsequent certificate is issued.
 (7) Where, in deciding whether or not to issue a certificate under subsection (1) specifying 2 or more production licences, the Resources Minister has reasonable grounds to believe that an operation, facility or other thing is being, has been or is proposed to be carried on or provided, or is being, has been or is proposed to be carried on or provided in a particular manner or by particular persons, for the sole or dominant purpose of obtaining the issue of the certificate, the Minister must disregard the carrying on or provision of the operation, facility or thing.
 (8) Where, after the issue of a certificate under subsection (1), it appears to the Resources Minister that, having regard to information that was not available to the Minister at the time of issue of the certificate, the certificate would not, by reason of the application of subsection (7), have been issued if the Minister had been aware of the information at the time of issue of the certificate, the Minister must cancel the certificate and upon the cancellation the certificate shall be deemed never to have been issued.
 (9) The Minister must:
 (a) within 30 days after the issue of a certificate under subsection (1) or the cancellation under subsection (8) of such a certificate, arrange for notice in writing of the issue or cancellation:
 (i) to be sent