New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COASTAL PROTECTION ACT 1979 - SECT 55B

55B Requirement for coastal zone management plans

(1) A council whose area, or part of whose area, is included within the coastal zone may, and must, if directed to do so by the Minister, make a coastal zone management plan in accordance with this Part.

(2) Two or more councils whose areas adjoin may decide to join in the making of a coastal zone management plan in accordance with this Part.

(3) If, under subsection (2), two or more councils decide to join in the making of a coastal zone management plan, a reference in this Part:

(a) to a council includes a reference to those councils, and

(b) to an area includes a reference to the areas of those councils.

(4) A coastal zone management plan may be made in relation to the whole, or any part, of the area included within the coastal zone.