75Publication of proposal

75 Publication of proposal (1) Before declaring an area to be a chemical control area, the Minister must: (a) publish in a newspaper circulating in the area notice of the proposal to make a declaration; and (b) give a copy of the notice to the owners and occupiers of any land that will form part of, or will be adjacent to, the area.

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Control of Use) Act 2004 52 (2) The notice must: (a) describe the area; (b) contain a summary of the prohibitions and conditions proposed to be imposed; (c) specify the place where copies of the proposal may be obtained; and (d) invite comments on the proposal to be lodged at the specified place in the specified manner on or before the specified date, being a date not less than 21 days after the last day on which the notice is published under subsection (3). (3) The notice must be published on at least 2 days, the last day it is published being not less than 14 days after the first day it is published. (4) After considering the comments received in accordance with the invitation in the notice, the Minister may: (a) make a declaration in the same terms as the original proposal; or (b) revise the proposal and publish notice of the revised proposal in the same way in which notice of the original proposal was required to be published. (5) After considering the comments received in accordance with the invitation in the notice published under subsection (4)(b), the Minister may: (a) make a declaration in the same terms as the revised proposal; or (b) revise the proposal a second time and make a declaration in the terms of the proposal as revised the second time.