22ADeclaration of a municipal district

22A Declaration of a municipal district

(1) The Minister may declare a municipal district to be a district for which a roadside weed and pest animal management plan must be prepared.

(2) The declaration must be published in the Government Gazette and state—

(a) that the roadside weed and pest animal management plan relates to regionally prohibited weeds, regionally controlled weeds and established pest animals on roadsides of municipal roads in the declared municipal district; and

(b) the term for which the roadside weed and pest animal management plan is to operate being a period of between 2 and 4 years; and

(c) the Minister's reasons for making the declaration.

(3) In making a declaration, the Minister must take into account—

(a) the nature and extent of municipal roads in the municipal district; and

(b) the extent to which the roadsides of those municipal roads are infested with regionally prohibited weeds, regionally controlled weeds and established pest animals.

(4) The Minister must give a copy of the declaration to the municipal council of the declared municipal district.

(5) The declaration takes effect on the day it is published in the Government Gazette or on any later date after the date that any earlier declaration ceases to have effect as is specified in the notice.

(6) The declaration ceases to have effect at the earliest of—

(a) the end of the term of operation of any approved roadside weed and pest animal management plan for the declared municipal district; or

(b) if the approval of the roadside weed and pest animal management plan is revoked for the declared municipal district under section 22O, at the time the revocation takes effect.

S. 22B inserted by No. 51/2013 s. 7.