New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT ACT 1979 - SECT 45

45 Notification

(1) In the preparation of an environmental study or a draft regional environmental plan, the Director-General, to the extent required by this section, is to notify the information specified in subsection (2) to the following:

(a) each council whose area or part of whose area is situated in the region or part of the region to which that study or draft plan applies,

(c) such other public authorities, other bodies (including authorities of the Commonwealth or other States) and other persons as the Director-General determines.

(2) The information to be notified is the following:

(a) the reasons for deciding to prepare the environmental study or the draft regional environmental plan,

(b) the general aims and objectives of the study or draft plan,

(c) a general description of the land or area to which the study or draft plan is intended to apply,

(d) such other matters (if any) as the Director-General thinks fit.

(3) Information about an environmental study and information about a draft regional environmental plan may be notified under this section at the same time or at different times.

(4) A person to whom information is notified under this section may comment to the Director-General on the preparation of the environmental study or draft regional environmental plan within 28 days after the Director-General notifies the information.