Great Ocean Road and Environs Protection Act 2020
9Great Ocean Road coast and parks
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9 Great Ocean Road coast and parks
(1) The Governor in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister, may by Order published in the Government Gazette declare any area of public land or water referred to in subsection (3) to be the Great Ocean Road coast and parks.
S. 9(2) substituted by No. 42/2021 s. 6(1).
(2) The Minister may only make a recommendation under subsection (1) with the consent of any Minister that administers an Act under which public land is managed, if public land under that Act is within the proposed Great Ocean Road coast and parks.
(a) public land and water between the outer limit of Victorian coastal waters and the Great Ocean Road;
(b) public land and water between the Great Ocean Road and inland of the Great Ocean Road that is within the municipal districts of the following municipal councils—
(i) Surf Coast Shire Council;
(ii) Colac Otway Shire Council;
(iii) Corangamite Shire Council;
(iv) Moyne Shire Council;
S. 9(3)(b)(v) amended by No. 42/2021 s. 6(2)(a).
(v) Warrnambool City Council;
S. 9(3)(c) inserted by No. 42/2021 s. 6(2)(b).
(c) land on which the Great Ocean Road is situated.
(4) The Order must identify any land to which it applies by reference to a numbered plan lodged in the Central Plan Office.
(5) The Governor in Council may remove any land or water from the Great Ocean Road coast and parks in the same manner as a declaration is made under this section.