GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1966 - SECT 9
Submissions in relation to proposed name or alteration
GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1966 - SECT 9
Submissions in relation to proposed name or alteration
9 Submissions in relation to proposed name or alteration
(1) Any person may, within a period of one month after the date of publication
of the notice referred to in section 8 or within any further period that the
board may allow either in the notice or afterwards, make a written submission
to the secretary of the board in relation to the proposed name or alteration.
(2) The board shall inquire into and dispose of all submissions made pursuant
to subsection (1).
(3) Where the board, after considering any submissions in
relation to a proposed name or alteration:
(a) decides that that name or
alteration should not be adopted, the board may abandon the proposed name or
alteration, or
(b) decides that that proposed name or alteration should be
adopted, either with or without modification, it may so recommend to the
Minister in a report which shall also set out the grounds of any objections to
the proposed name or alteration contained in the submissions.
(4) Where the
board makes a decision referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (3), it may,
at any subsequent time, make a further proposal, in accordance with section 8,
to assign to the place referred to in its decision the same or any other name,
or to make the same or any other alteration to the name of the place so
referred to.
(5) The Minister, after such inquiry as he or she thinks fit,
may approve or disapprove of the recommendation of the board referred to in
paragraph (b) of subsection (3), and his or her decision shall be final.
