Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003

This section also applies if there is no endorsed party for the cultural heritage management plan.

When the chief executive approves, or refuses to approve, the plan, the chief executive must give written notice of the approval, or refusal to approve, to the sponsor for the plan.

The approval or refusal to approve is not ineffective only because the sponsor does not receive the notice under subsection (2).

If the chief executive refuses to approve the plan, the chief executive must include in the written notice given under subsection (2) a written statement of the chief executive’s reasons for refusing to approve the plan.

The chief executive is not required to accept, but may accept, for the chief executive’s further consideration, the plan in a form amended to take account of the matters mentioned in the chief executive’s statement of reasons.