Coastal Management Act 2016

A coastal management program must—

identify the coastal management issues affecting the areas to which the program is to apply, and

identify the actions required to address those coastal management issues in an integrated and strategic manner, and

identify how and when those actions are to be implemented, including those to be implemented by local councils under Chapter 13 of the Local Government Act 1993, those to be implemented under environmental planning instruments and development control plans under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 and those to be implemented by public authorities (other than the local council), and

identify the costs of those actions and proposed cost-sharing arrangements and other viable funding mechanisms for those actions to ensure the delivery of those actions is consistent with the timing for their implementation under the coastal management program, and

if the local council’s local government area contains land within the coastal vulnerability area and beach erosion, coastal inundation or cliff instability is occurring on that land, include a coastal zone emergency action subplan.

A coastal management program may also include other matters as may be authorised or permitted by the coastal management manual.

A coastal zone emergency action subplan is a plan that outlines the roles and responsibilities of all public authorities (including the local council) in response to emergencies immediately preceding or during periods of beach erosion, coastal inundation or cliff instability, where the beach erosion, coastal inundation or cliff instability occurs through storm activity or an extreme or irregular event. For the purposes of this subsection, those roles and responsibilities include the carrying out of works for the protection of property affected or likely to be affected by beach erosion, coastal inundation or cliff instability.

A coastal management program must not include the following—

matters dealt with in any plan made under the State Emergency and Rescue Management Act 1989 in relation to the response to emergencies,

proposed actions or activities to be carried out by any public authority or relating to any land or other assets owned or managed by a public authority, unless the public authority has agreed to the inclusion of those proposed actions or activities in the program.