Kava Management Act 1998

(1) The person who applies or persons who apply under section 54(1) or (1A) to the Minister to declare an area or areas as a licence area must prepare a kava management plan for the licence area.

(2) A person who prepares or the persons who prepare a kava management plan must do so in consultation with the Director, the Commissioner of Police and the Chief Health Officer and must, on completing it, give the kava management plan to the Director for approval.

(3) The Director must not approve a kava management plan unless satisfied that the kava management plan:

(a) appropriately provides for the matters specified in section 58B(1)(a) and (b); and

(c) in the case of a kava management plan that will be applying in a licence area that is, or part of which is, within a local government area or an area controlled or managed by an incorporated association – is supported by the local government council for the local government area or the incorporated association; and

(d) was developed to the reasonable satisfaction of the Commissioner of Police and the Chief Health Officer.

(3A) In addition, the Director must not approve a kava management plan unless the Director has consulted the residents of the licence area in which the kava management plan will apply about that kava management plan.

(3B) For subsection (3A), consultations with residents must be conducted in the same manner in which consultations were conducted with them under section 55 about the application to declare the licence area and section 55 applies (with the necessary changes) accordingly.

(4) A kava management plan has no effect unless it is approved by the Director.