Transport Infrastructure Act 1994

This section applies if the person proposing the development can not successfully negotiate entry to the land with all affected persons for the land.

The person may apply to the chief executive for an investigator’s authority for the land.

The applicant must give the chief executive the following in support of the application—

details of the proposed development, including the land on which the development is proposed to be located;

the likely demand for the services associated with the proposed development;

advice as to how the proposed development would satisfy an identified need;

details of the applicant’s financial and technical capacity to establish the proposed development;

details of the steps the applicant has taken, or tried to take, to satisfy its obligations under subsection (1);

all other information the chief executive considers is necessary to assess the application.

The application must be in writing and state the following information—

the land intended to be entered under the investigator’s authority;

the purpose for which the authority is sought;

details of the nature of the activities proposed to be conducted on the land;

the period for which the authority is sought.

The chief executive must advise the affected persons for the land—

that an application for an investigator’s authority has been made for the land; and

the powers a person given an authority may exercise under this chapter.