New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL LANDS PROTECTION ACT 1998 - SECT 56

56 What information is publicly available?

(1) In this section:
"publicly available document" means any of the following documents:

(a) any annual report prepared by the authority under section 57A,

(b) any financial report of an authority and any accompanying auditor’s reports as referred to in Division 4A,

(c) any report on a performance audit under section 55,

(d) minutes of board meetings (other than minutes for any meeting or part of a meeting that is closed to the public) and any other matters that the authority resolves should be made public,

(e) the authority’s function management plans,

(f) any roll required to be established and maintained by an authority under clause 11 of Schedule 2.

(2) Any person is entitled to inspect the current version of a publicly available document free of charge.

(3) Any person is entitled to inspect free of charge:

(a) a document that was replaced by a current publicly available document, and

(b) if a publicly available document is produced annually-the corresponding document produced for the previous year.

(4) The documents may be inspected at the principal office of the authority during ordinary office hours.

(5) The authority may provide a copy of any document for taking away (either free of charge or on payment of reasonable charges, as the authority chooses).

(6) The authority may allow inspection of versions of the documents other than the current and immediately preceding versions if those other versions are reasonably accessible.

(7) This section does not prevent the authority from allowing inspection free of charge of any other of its documents.

(8) This section does not apply to a document that is made or produced before the commencement of this section.