New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PLANTATIONS AND REAFFORESTATION ACT 1999 - SECT 26

26 Public consultation

(1) The Minister is required to give the public an opportunity to make submissions on the proposed Code and to take any submission that is duly made into account.

(2) In order to give the public an opportunity to do so, the Minister must:

(a) exhibit the proposed Code at the head office of the Department of Land and Water Conservation and at its regional offices (including on the internet site of the Department), and

(b) allow a period of not less than 30 days for public comment, and

(c) before the proposed Code is exhibited, advertise the dates and places of exhibition and the period allowed for public comment in a newspaper circulating throughout the State and in any local newspaper that the Minister considers appropriate.

(3) Before the proposed Code is made, the Minister is to prepare and make public a report on the public consultation under this section (including information about any submissions received by the Minister).