New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 36B

36B Community land comprising the habitat of threatened species

(1) In this section--

"recovery plan" means a recovery plan under Part 4 of the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 or Division 5 of Part 7A of the Fisheries Management Act 1994 .

"relevant Director" means--

(a) in relation to a recovery plan under Part 4 of the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 or a threat abatement plan under Part 5 of that Act, the Chief Executive of the Office of Environment and Heritage, and

(b) in relation to a recovery plan or a threat abatement plan under Division 5 of Part 7A of the Fisheries Management Act 1994 , the Secretary of the Department of Industry, Skills and Regional Development.

"threat abatement plan" means a threat abatement plan under Part 5 of the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 or Division 5 of Part 7A of the Fisheries Management Act 1994 .

(2) For the purposes of this section, land is directly affected by a recovery plan or threat abatement plan only if the plan concerned requires measures specified in the plan to be taken by a specified council on or in respect of the land.

(3) A plan of management adopted in respect of an area of community land, all or part of which is directly affected by a recovery plan or threat abatement plan, is to apply to that area only, and not to other areas of land.

(4) A plan of management to be adopted for an area of community land, all or part of which is directly affected by a recovery plan or threat abatement plan--

(a) must state that the land, or the relevant part, is so affected, and

(b) must, in complying with section 36(3)(a), categorise the land, or the relevant part, as a natural area, and

(c) must, in complying with section 36(3)(b), (c) and (d), identify objectives, performance targets and other matters that--

(i) take account of the council's obligations under the recovery plan or threat abatement plan in relation to the land, and

(ii) are otherwise consistent with the objects of the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 or the Fisheries Management Act 1994 , as the case requires, and

(iii) incorporate the core objectives prescribed under section 36 in respect of community land categorised as a natural area, and

(d) must--

(i) when public notice is given of the draft plan under section 38, be sent (or a copy must be sent) by the council to the relevant Director, and

(ii) incorporate any matter specified by the relevant Director in relation to the land, or the relevant part.

(5) If, after the adoption of a plan of management applying to just one area of community land, all or part of that area becomes directly affected by a recovery plan or threat abatement plan--

(a) the plan of management is taken to be amended, as from the date the declaration took effect, to categorise the land or the relevant part as a natural area, and

(b) the council must amend the plan of management (and, in doing so, the provisions of subsection (4)(a), (c) and (d) apply to the amendment of the plan of management in the same way as they apply to the adoption of a plan of management), and

(c) until the plan of management has been amended as required by paragraph (b)--

(i) the use of the land must not be varied, except to the extent necessary to further the objects of the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 or the Fisheries Management Act 1994 , as the case requires, or in order to give effect to the core objectives prescribed under section 36 in respect of community land categorised as a natural area, or to terminate the use, and

(ii) no lease, licence or other estate may be granted in respect of the land.

(6) If, after the adoption of a plan of management applying to several areas of community land, all or part of one of those areas becomes directly affected by a recovery plan or threat abatement plan--

(a) the plan of management ceases, as from the date the declaration took effect, to apply to that area, and

(b) a plan of management must be prepared and adopted by the council for that area, and

(c) the plan of management so prepared and adopted must comply with subsection (4).