New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FORESTRY AND NATIONAL PARK ESTATE ACT 1998 - SECT 17

17 Public consultation on making agreement

(1) The Ministers who are to be parties to a proposed forest agreement are required to ensure that the public is given an opportunity to participate in connection with the making of the forest agreement.

(2) The public participation is to include:

(a) giving notice of the making of the proposed agreement (including notice of the place at which and times during which the proposed agreement will be available for public inspection) in a newspaper circulating throughout the State and also in a newspaper circulating in the region concerned, and

(b) making the proposed agreement available for public inspection, at the place and during the times specified in the notice, for at least 28 days after the notice is given in both of those newspapers, and

(c) inviting representations in connection with the proposed agreement within the time specified in the notice, and

(d) consideration of any such representation before the agreement is made.

(3) This section does not apply to the making of forest agreements with respect to the Eden region, the Lower North East region and the Upper North East region (other than the making of a forest agreement for any such region to replace any earlier such agreement).