---
title: "Eligible interest-holder consent checklist for an ACCU project"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/agribusiness-and-rural-law/accu-eligible-interest-holder-consent"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a38-accu-eligible-interest-holder-consent"
area_id: "A38"
kind: "checklist"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A38-E20261018-5"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-22"
---

# Eligible interest-holder consent checklist for an ACCU project

> A checklist of whose consent is needed before an area-based ACCU project can receive units, what that consent does not do, and when a project can be registered without every consent in hand.…

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/agribusiness-and-rural-law/accu-eligible-interest-holder-consent  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-22

Site index for agents: https://ailawframework.com/llms.txt

A checklist of whose consent is needed before an area-based ACCU project can receive units, what that consent does not do, and when a project can be registered without every consent in hand. The consent form is not signed here.

## Key facts

- Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Practice area: [Agribusiness & Rural Law](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/agribusiness-and-rural-law.md)
- Jurisdictions: Australia
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-22
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-22 against the 2 authorities it cites, for Australia.

## When to use it

Use when an area-based emissions-avoidance or sequestration project needs eligible interest-holder consents, or when area is being added. Do not use it as the consent form. The consent-guidance PDF and the legal-right page were not opened.

## Used for these tasks

- [Collect eligible interest-holder consents for an area-based carbon project](https://ailawframework.com/practice/agribusiness-and-rural-law.md#A38-E20261018-5)

## How AI may be used

AI may list interest-holders from the title search and mark which consent is missing. It must not sign the consent, or say the project is eligible or that a carbon right has been assigned.

**AI may:**

- List landholders, mortgagees, Crown lands ministers, registered native title bodies corporate and easement holders shown on the searches
- Record whether each consent is attached, deferred under conditional registration, or avoided by excluding an easement from the map
- Record that an Indigenous land use agreement already contains the consent, if the lawyer has identified a registered agreement

**AI must not:**

- Must not sign the consent form, or say consent can be withdrawn after registration
- Must not treat consent as a legal right to run the project, as an assignment of carbon sequestration rights, or as a promise of units
- Must not decide that free, prior and informed consent has been given. The page says the principle should be considered on native title land
- Must not apply a method rule. Method pages were not opened, including the closed Western Australian method pages

**The lawyer checks:**

- The project is an area-based emissions-avoidance or sequestration project. Other project types are outside this page
- Every eligible interest-holder in sections 43 to 45A has been identified from the Act, not only from the examples on the page
- Conditional registration is acceptable only if all outstanding consents will be in before the first reporting period ends, and no units are expected before then
- A blue-carbon project uses CER-ACCU-BC001 or CER-ACCU-BC002, not the general form, if that is the method

## Authorities

- [Clean Energy Regulator, Eligible interest-holder consent (who must consent, what consent does not do, and conditional registration), last updated 27 October 2025](https://cer.gov.au/schemes/australian-carbon-credit-unit-scheme/how-to-participate-accu-scheme/apply-to-participate-accu-scheme/eligible-interest-holder-consent)
- [Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011 (Cth) ss 43 to 45A, as the page names the listing of eligible interest-holders. The Act was not opened.](https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2011A00101)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/agribusiness-and-rural-law/accu-eligible-interest-holder-consent and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*