Recreation Areas Management Act 2006

The Minister must publish a notice about the draft plan on the department’s website.

The notice must—

state—

the recreation area the draft plan relates to; and

that a copy of the draft plan and the provisions of any document applied, adopted or incorporated by the plan are available for inspection, without charge—

during normal business hours at the department’s head office and at each department office in the general area in which the recreation area is located; and

on the department’s website; and

invite members of the public, including area land-holders and relevant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander entities for the area, to make written submissions about the draft plan to the Minister, within a stated period.

The stated period must be at least 20 business days after the notice is published.

Subsection (2)(b) does not apply if—

the draft plan is substantially uniform or complementary with—

another Act; or

a law of the Commonwealth or another State; or

the draft plan adopts an Australian or international protocol, standard, code, or intergovernmental agreement or instrument, and an assessment of the benefits and costs associated with the plan has already been made and the assessment was made for, or is relevant to, Queensland; or

there has already been other public consultation about the matters, the subject of the plan, and the Minister is satisfied the public has been adequately consulted about the matters.

On payment of the fee decided by the chief executive, a person may obtain a copy of the draft plan from the chief executive.

The fee must not be more than the reasonable cost incurred by the chief executive for printing the copy and giving it to the person.

For subsection (6), if the person asks for the copy to be mailed to the person, the fee may include the reasonable cost of mailing the copy to the person.