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Coastal Protection and Management Act 1995
sec.56Things to be considered when declaring coastal management districts
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### sec.56 Things to be considered when declaring coastal management districts
The following things must be considered before an area is declared as a coastal management district—
the area’s vulnerability to erosion by the sea or to wind induced effects;
whether the area should be kept in an undeveloped state to maintain or enhance the coast or coastal resources;
public access to a foreshore in the area;
foreseeable human impacts and coastal hazards in the area;
the existing tenure of, interests in, and rights to, land in the area;
Aboriginal tradition and Island custom of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people particularly concerned with land in the area;
planning and development management of the area;
the need to conserve, protect or rehabilitate coastal ecological systems or geomorphic features of the area.
s 56 amd 2001 No. 93 s 24 sch ; 2011 No. 6 s 16
- (a) the area’s vulnerability to erosion by the sea or to wind induced effects;
- (b) whether the area should be kept in an undeveloped state to maintain or enhance the coast or coastal resources;
- (c) public access to a foreshore in the area;
- (d) foreseeable human impacts and coastal hazards in the area;
- (e) the existing tenure of, interests in, and rights to, land in the area;
- (f) Aboriginal tradition and Island custom of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people particularly concerned with land in the area;
- (g) planning and development management of the area;
- (h) the need to conserve, protect or rehabilitate coastal ecological systems or geomorphic features of the area.