Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 - SECT 21

Procedure for making management plans

21. Procedure for making management plans



(1) The Secretary may make a management plan for any taxon or community of
flora or fauna or potentially threatening process.

(2) Before making a management plan the Secretary must prepare a draft
management plan and before preparing a draft management plan the Secretary
must consult with any landholder or water manager whose interests in the
Secretary's opinion may be directly and materially affected by the management
plan.

(3) The Secretary must give notice of the preparation of draft management plan
to any landholder of land or manager of water which is likely to be directly
affected by that plan and must publish notice of the preparation of draft
management plan in the Government Gazette and in a newspaper circulating
generally throughout the State and in a newspaper circulating generally in the
area to which the plan applies.

(4) A notice must-

   (a)  be in the prescribed form; and

   (b)  state the date by which submissions must be made to the Secretary,
        which must be at least 30 days after the date on which the notice is
        published; and

   (c)  specify the manner in which submissions must be made; and

   (d)  fix a time and a place at which a copy of the draft plan will be
        available to the public for inspection.

(5) Any person may make submissions to the Secretary about a draft management
plan and the Secretary must acknowledge receipt of each submission.

(6) After considering all the submissions made within the period set out in
the notice the Secretary may make the management plan either with or without
changes.

(7) After the management plan has been made the Secretary must give notice of
its making to those persons to whom notice was given under subsection (3) and
must publish notice of its making in the Government Gazette and in a newspaper
circulating generally throughout the State and in a newspaper circulating
generally in the area to which the plan applies.