Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Before a regulation, under section 54(1)(b), is made declaring, changing the boundaries of or abolishing a coastal management district, the chief executive must give public notice of the proposed declaration, change or abolition (the proposal).
(2) The notice must--
(a) be published in a newspaper circulating generally throughout the coastal management district; and
(b) state where copies of the plan showing the proposal may be inspected and, on payment of a reasonable fee, purchased; and
(c) invite written submissions from the public; and
(d) state a day (not earlier than 40 business days from the publication of the notice) by which submissions may be made and the place where the submissions may be made.
(3) The chief executive must send details of the proposal to each local government and port authority within the area covered by the district.
(4) The Minister must consider all submissions properly made about the proposal.
(5) If, when making a submission, a person asks the Minister for a response on the submission, the Minister must advise the person in writing--
(a) whether the submission was accepted or rejected and, if it was rejected, the reasons for the rejection; and
(b) if the person is an owner of land in the coastal management district--the reason why the land was included in the district; and
(c) if a coastal building line is fixed for the land--the reason for fixing the line.