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LAND USE PLANNING AND APPROVALS ACT 1993 - SECT 60H Minister may request information from council or relevant State entity

LAND USE PLANNING AND APPROVALS ACT 1993 - SECT 60H

Minister may request information from council or relevant State entity

(1)  The Minister, by notice to a council or relevant State entity, may request the council or relevant State entity to provide to the Minister, within the period specified in the notice, the information, specified in the notice, that is in the possession of the council, or relevant State entity, respectively.
(2)  Information may only be requested under subsection (1)  –
(a) before the Minister makes a declaration of a major project under section 60O(1) ; and
(b) if it is reasonably necessary to enable the Minister to determine whether or not to make a declaration of a major project.
(3)  A council, or the Secretary, or chief executive officer, of a relevant State entity, to which a notice is given under subsection (1) is to take all reasonable steps to provide to the Minister, within the period specified in the notice, the information specified in the notice.
(4)  Without limiting the generality of subsection (1) , the information that may be requested under that subsection includes information as to any further approvals, permissions, licences, or authorities, however described, that, in addition to a project-related permit, may be required to be obtained by the proponent under an Act in order for the project, or activities for the purposes of the project, to be lawfully implemented or conducted.