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Historical version for 4 June 2015 to 7 July 2015 (accessed 6 August 2020 at 03:19) Repealed version
Historical version for 4 June 2015 to 7 July 2015 (accessed 6 August 2020 at 03:19)
Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015 No 15 (not commenced — to commence on 8.7.2015)
File last modified 29 June 2015.
An Act to make provisions relating to the use and occupation of the coastal region; and to facilitate the carrying out of certain coastal protection works.
(1) For the purposes of this Act, each of the following is a Coastal Authority:
(b) the Minister administering the Crown Lands Act 1989,
(c) a council whose area, or part of whose area, is included within the coastal zone or whose area includes land that adjoins the tidal waters of the Hawkesbury River, Sydney Harbour and Botany Bay, and their tributaries,
(d) a roads authority (within the meaning of the Roads Act 1993) for a road within the coastal zone or on land that adjoins the tidal waters of the Hawkesbury River, Sydney Harbour and Botany Bay, and their tributaries,
(e) a public authority that is the owner of, or has the care, control or management of, land within the coastal zone or land that adjoins the tidal waters of the Hawkesbury River, Sydney Harbour and Botany Bay, and their tributaries (other than a State owned corporation or a reserve trust within the meaning of Part 5 of the Crown Lands Act 1989).
(2) A Coastal Authority:
(a) may exercise the functions of an authorised officer, and
(b) when exercising those functions, has all the immunities of an authorised officer.
(3) The owner of a transacted distribution system or transacted transmission system under the Electricity Network Assets (Authorised Transactions) Act 2015 is not a Coastal Authority for the purposes of this Act.
(1) A Coastal Authority may appoint a person to be an authorised officer.
(2) A Coastal Authority must not appoint a person to be an authorised officer under this section unless the person has undergone such training or has such competency as is required by the Minister.
(3) In appointing authorised officers, a Coastal Authority may specify that the appointment is subject to conditions or restrictions relating to:
(a) the functions that are exercisable by those officers, or
(b) when, where and in what circumstances those officers may exercise functions.
(1) A Coastal Authority is to issue an identification card that complies with this section to each authorised officer.
(c) state the date (if any) on which it expires, and
(d) describe the kinds of premises to which the powers of the authorised officer extend, and
(e) state any limitations on the functions that the authorised officer is authorised to exercise under this Act that are imposed by the authorised officer’s instrument of appointment.
(3) Each authorised officer who is not a police officer must:
(a) carry his or her identification card as an authorised officer while exercising functions under this Act, and
(b) if requested to do so by any person affected by the exercise of a function by an authorised officer under this Act, produce the officer’s identification card to the person.
See Part 15 of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 in relation to a police officer’s obligation to produce evidence that the police officer is a police officer (unless the police officer is in uniform).
(4) A person who has been issued with an identification card and who stops being an authorised officer must return his or her identification card to the appropriate Coastal Authority as soon as practicable.
(5) A person must not contravene subsection (4) without reasonable excuse.
A Coastal Authority may delegate the exercise of any function of the Coastal Authority under this Act (other than this power of delegation) to:
(1) There is to be a NSW Coastal Panel.
(2) The Coastal Panel is to consist of 7 members appointed by the Minister of whom:
(a) one is to be a person nominated by the Director-General, and
(b) one is to be a person nominated by the Director-General of the Department of Planning, and
(c) three are to be nominated by the Local Government and Shires Association of New South Wales, and
(d) one is to be a person nominated by the Chief Executive of the Land and Property Management Authority, and
(e) one is to be appointed by the Minister with the concurrence of the Local Government and Shires Association of New South Wales.
(3) The person appointed under subsection (2) (e) is to be the Chairperson of the Coastal Panel. The person appointed under subsection (2) (a) is to be the Deputy Chairperson of the Coastal Panel.
(4) A person appointed under subsection (2) (a)–(d) must have qualifications and experience relevant to coastal planning, coastal engineering, coastal geomorphology, coastal environmental management or estuary management.
(5) The Coastal Panel is a NSW Government agency.
By virtue of section 13A of the Interpretation Act 1987, a NSW Government agency has the status, privileges and immunities of the Crown.
(6) In appointing a member, the Minister is to have regard to the need to have a range of expertise represented among the Coastal Panel’s members.
(7) For the avoidance of doubt, the Coastal Panel is a public authority for the purposes of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.
(8) Schedule 2 contains provisions relating to the constitution and procedure of the Coastal Panel.
(1) The Coastal Panel has the following functions:
(a) to provide advice to the Minister on any matter referred to the Coastal Panel by the Minister relating to the coastal zone or otherwise in connection with the operation of this Act,
(b) to provide advice to local councils in relation to such other matters as the Minister determines and notifies to the Coastal Panel,
(c) such functions conferred or imposed on it by or under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 relating to the granting of development consent,
(d) any other function conferred or imposed on it by or under this Act, the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 or any other Act.
(2) In exercising its functions, the Coastal Panel is to have regard to the objects of this Act.
(3) The Coastal Panel may delegate the exercise of any function of the Coastal Panel under this or any other Act (other than this power of delegation) to:
(4) Despite subsection (3), the Coastal Panel may only delegate a function conferred or imposed on it by or under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 relating to the granting of development consent with the concurrence of the Minister and the Minister administering that Act.
Coastal Protection Amendment Act 1998
Coastal Protection Amendment Act 2012
2 Definition of coastal zone
Any order, concurrence, condition, authorisation or notice made or given under this Act as in force immediately before the commencement of Schedule 1 [3] to the Coastal Protection Amendment Act 1998 has effect after that commencement, but only in relation to land or waters within the coastal zone (within the meaning of Part 3) after that commencement.
Part 2 Provisions consequent on enactment of Coastal Protection Amendment Act 2002
3 Preparation of coastal zone management plan
(1) A council to which section 55B applies must submit a draft coastal zone management plan to the Minister in accordance with section 55G (1):
(a) within 12 months after it is directed by the Minister under section 55B to make a coastal zone management plan, or
(2) If a council fails to comply with this clause, the Minister may:
(a) make a coastal zone management plan instead of the council, and
(b) recover the cost of making the coastal zone management plan from the council, and
(c) publish the coastal zone management plan in the Gazette.
Such a plan is taken to have been made by the council in accordance with Part 4A.
Part 3 Provisions consequent on enactment of Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009
4 Coastal zone management plans applying to only part of a coastal zone
A coastal zone management plan that was made by a council or councils under section 55B before the commencement of section 55B (4) (as inserted by the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009), that would have been validly made had that subsection been in force, is taken to have been validly made.