Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts30. Conservation management plans
(1) The Council may prepare a conservation management plan in respect of a heritage place or heritage object taking into account the opinion of the owner and/or occupier of the place, or the owner and/or person in lawful possession of the object, and such public opinion as is known to it.
(2) A conservation management plan shall contain a description of work to be permitted to be carried out on a heritage place or heritage object and the places where the heritage object may be located and the conditions, if any, subject to which the work may be carried out or object moved from one place to another.
(3) Where the Council has prepared a conservation management plan it shall, by notice in a newspaper circulating in the area in which the heritage place or heritage object is situated:
(a) state that the plan has been prepared;
(b) invite interested persons to make representations in connection with the plan by such date, being not earlier than 28 days after the date of publication of the notice in the newspaper, as is specified in the notice;
(c) specify an address or addresses at which copies of the plan may be inspected or purchased; and
(d) specify an address to which representations in connection with the plan should be sent.
(4) A person may, not later than the date specified in the notice under subsection (3), make representations to the Council in connection with the conservation management plan and the Council shall give due consideration to any representations so made and, if it thinks fit, alter the plan accordingly.
(5) As soon as practicable after the expiration of the time referred to in a notice under subsection (3), the Council shall forward to the Minister for presentation to the Administrator:
(a) the conservation management plan; and
(b) if representations have been made under subsection (4), those representations, together with the comments, if any, of the Council on those representations.
(6) The Administrator may accept the conservation management plan as so submitted or after making such alterations as the Administrator thinks fit.
(7) Where, under subsection (6), the Administrator makes alterations to a conservation management plan, the Administrator shall prepare a report specifying the alterations and the report shall accompany the plan when it is laid before the Legislative Assembly under section 31.