New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SYDNEY WATER CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT ACT 1998 - SECT 49

49 Plans of management

(1) The joint sponsors are jointly required to cause a plan of management to be prepared for each special area as soon as practicable after it has been declared to be a special area.

(2) When a plan of management has been prepared, the joint sponsors must give notice of the plan in a newspaper circulating throughout New South Wales and must, in that notice:

(a) specify the address of the place at which copies of the plan of management may be inspected, and

(b) specify the address to which representations concerning the plan of management may be forwarded.

(3) Any person may, within 30 days or such longer period as may be specified in the notice, make representations to the joint sponsors concerning the plan of management.

(4) The joint sponsors must, on the expiration of the period referred to in subsection (3), and before submitting the plan of management to the Ministers, consider any representations made under this section.

(5) The Ministers may adopt a plan of management without alteration or with such alterations as the Ministers think fit or may refer it back to the joint sponsors for further consideration.

(6) If the Ministers refer a plan of management back for further consideration, the joint sponsors must resubmit it after considering it further and making any appropriate alterations.

(7) The Ministers may:

(a) amend or alter a plan of management from time to time, or

(b) cancel a plan of management, or

(c) cancel a plan of management and substitute a new plan.

(8) Before doing any of the things referred to in subsection (7), the Ministers may consult with any person or body (including persons or bodies other than the joint sponsors) that the Ministers think fit.

(9) Subsections (2)-(4) apply to an amendment or alteration of a plan of management in the same way as they apply to a plan of management.