19Permitted and prohibited areas, identifying

19. Permitted and prohibited areas, identifying

(1) Where any land is declared to be a permitted area or is established as a prohibited area for the purposes of this Act the Minister must as soon as is practicable thereafter —

(a) cause a map of the area and a description of the land to be made available for inspection by interested persons —

(i) at the office of the Western Australian Land Information Authority established by the Land Information Authority Act 2006 section 5; and

(ii) at the office of any local government, the district of which for the purpose of this Act is wholly or partly within the area; and

(iii) at such other places likely to be convenient to persons affected by the declaration as he may think fit;

and

(b) cause a notice, briefly describing the area concerned and stating where a map of the area may be inspected, to be published in a newspaper circulating in each of the districts wholly or partly affected.

(2) It is not necessary that the boundaries of any permitted area or prohibited area be surveyed or demarcated but where practicable the local government of the district in which the boundary is situated must delineate that boundary by the erection or establishment of suitable notices or marks.

(3) A person must not destroy, damage, alter, move, or interfere with any notice or mark erected or established pursuant to subsection (2).

[Section 19 amended: No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 60 of 2006 s. 128; No. 8 of 2025 s. 14 and 15.]