REFERENCE AREAS ACT 1978 - SECT 3 Power to Minister to recommend proclamation reference areas

REFERENCE AREAS ACT 1978 - SECT 3

    (1)     Where the Minister after having considered a report from the Land Conservation Council is of the opinion that any area of public land should be preserved in its natural state as far as is possible because the area is of ecological interest and significance, he may recommend to the Governor in Council that that area be proclaimed to be a reference area.

S. 3(2) inserted by No. 50/2002 s. 26.

    (2)     Where the Minister, after having considered a recommendation of the Victorian Environmental Assessment Council under the Victorian Environmental Assessment Council Act 2001 , is of the opinion that any area of public land should be preserved in its natural state as far as is possible, because the area is of ecological interest and significance, the Minister may recommend to the Governor in Council that that area be proclaimed to be a reference area.