New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FORESTRY AND NATIONAL PARK ESTATE ACT 1998 - SECT 22

22 Public notice and public availability of agreements, assessment documents, approvals and reports

(1) The Minister must cause public notice to be given of the following in a newspaper circulating throughout the State and also in a newspaper circulating in the area concerned:

(a) the making of a forest agreement made under this Act, and any amendment or termination of a forest agreement,

(b) the granting of an integrated forestry operations approval under this Act, and any amendment, suspension or revocation of an integrated forestry operations approval.

Any such notice is to state the place at which copies of the relevant documents will be available for public inspection.

(2) Copies of the following documents are to be available for public inspection at the head office and the appropriate regional office of the Department of Environment and Climate Change (as determined by the head of the Department), and at such other offices or places as the head of the Department directs:

(a) each forest agreement made under this Act, and any amendment or termination of a forest agreement (together with a statement of the reasons for the amendment or termination),

(b) each integrated forestry operations approval granted under this Act, and any amendment, suspension or revocation of an integrated forestry operations approval (together with a statement of the reasons for the amendment, suspension or revocation),

(c) the terms of reference of each 5-yearly review of a forest agreement,

(d) the last annual report on, and the report on the last 5-yearly review of, each forest agreement that are tabled in Parliament.

(3) A person may take copies of any such documents on payment of a charge determined by the head of the Department of Environment and Climate Change to cover the actual cost of the copying.

(4) Any such document need only be available for public inspection during ordinary office hours.

(5) An obligation under subsection (1) or (2) is to be complied with within 7 days after the relevant matter arises.

(6) Copies of documents required to be made available under subsection (2) must also be made available, as soon as practicable, on the Internet by means of the website of the Department of Environment and Climate Change.