Queensland Consolidated Acts

STATE DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS ORGANISATION ACT 1971 - SECT 35G

35G Public notice

(1) The Coordinator-General must decide whether or not to require the proponent to publicly notify the proposed change and its effects on the project, in a way decided by the Coordinator-General.

(2) The Coordinator-General must give the proponent a written notice (the
"decision notice" ) stating the decision, and if the decision was to make a requirement under subsection (1) , the decided way of public notification.

(3) If the decision is to require public notification, the decision notice must be given before the evaluation is made.

(4) Sections 33 and 34 apply to the public notification, and for submissions about the proposed change and its effect on the project, as if a reference in those sections to a draft EIS were a reference to the proposed change or the effects.

(5) Subsections (6) to (8) apply if the decision is not to require public notification.

(6) If the Coordinator-General is of the opinion that the proposed change might be approved unconditionally, the Coordinator-General may defer giving the decision notice.

(7) If the Coordinator-General’s opinion under subsection (6) changes or if the Coordinator-General is not of that opinion, the Coordinator-General must immediately give the decision notice.

(8) If the proposed change is approved unconditionally, the decision notice must accompany the Coordinator-General’s change report when it is given to the proponent under section 35J .

(9) In this section—

"approved unconditionally" , for the proposed change, means that the evaluation allows the change without the Coordinator-General doing anything mentioned in section 35I (2) .