New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GAS SUPPLY ACT 1996 - SECT 8

8 Public consultation

(1) Before determining an application for an authorisation or for the transfer of an authorisation, the Minister must cause notice of the application to be published in the Gazette and in a daily newspaper circulating throughout New South Wales.

(2) The notice must indicate:

(a) the nature of the authorisation to which the application relates, and

(b) the identity of the proposed holder of the authorisation, and

(c) the district in which the authorisation, if granted or transferred, would operate, and

(d) where submissions on the application should be lodged, and

(e) the time (being at least 40 days from the date on which the notice is first published) within which any such submissions should be lodged, and

(f) such other matters as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(3) The Minister must give due consideration to matters arising from any submissions under this section.