Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994 - SECT 19C

Corporate plans

19C. Corporate plans



(1) Each Authority must prepare a corporate plan and submit it to the
Minister-

   (a)  on or before the date specified by the Minister; or

   (b)  if no such date is specified, at least 2 months before it intends to
        implement the plan or any part of it.

(2) A corporate plan must be in or to the effect of a form approved by the
Minister and must include-

   (a)  a statement of corporate intent in accordance with section 19D;

   (b)  a business plan and financial statements containing the information
        that the Minister requires;

(3) An Authority may implement a corporate plan 2 months (or any shorter time
allowed by the Minister) after its submission to the Minister, unless the
Minister, within that time, directs in writing any variations that the
Minister thinks fit to be made in any corporate plan submitted in accordance
with this section.

(4) The Minister must publish in the Government Gazette any direction made
under subsection (3).

(5) The Minister must not give a direction under subsection (3) without first
having consulted the Authority about the direction.

(6) An Authority must not make a major deviation from its corporate plan
unless it has, at least 2 months (or any shorter time allowed by the Minister)
before it intends to make the deviation, submitted to the Minister details of
the proposed deviation.

(7) The Minister may issue guidelines as to what are major deviations for the
purposes of subsection (6).

(8) The corporate plan of an Authority at any time is that plan as varied
under subsection (3), or as revised by any deviation under subsection (6), at
that time.