New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FORESTRY AND NATIONAL PARK ESTATE ACT 1998 - SECT 19

19 Public consultation on amendment or revocation of agreement

(1) The Ministers who are parties to a forest agreement are required to ensure that the public is given an opportunity to participate in connection with any amendment or revocation of the forest agreement.

(2) The public participation under this section is to include:

(a) giving notice of the proposed amendment or revocation (including notice of the place at which and times during which any proposed amendment 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 any proposed amendment 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 amendment or revocation within the time specified in the notice, and

(d) consideration of any such representation before the agreement is amended or revoked.