8Adjustment of State forest, &c.

8 Adjustment of State forest, &c.

(1)  Such Crown land at or in the vicinity of the prescribed location as is required to be disturbed, cleared, excavated, built on, submerged or otherwise modified or used for the purposes of the Meander Dam project or any related hydro-electric power-generating facility may be so modified or used notwithstanding that the Crown land may be reserved land.

(2)  As soon as any reserved land is so modified or used  it ceases, by virtue of this section, to be reserved land.

(3)  Subsection (1) has effect only until the second of the following events occurs:

(a) the "work as executed" report referred to in clause 12 of the dam permit conditions is received by the Secretary of the responsible Department in relation to the Water Management Act 1999 ;

(b) the responsible Minister reasonably determines that the dam for the Meander Dam project is first filled to its maximum authorised storage capacity.

(4)  For the purpose of subsection (3) , the responsible Minister is to give notice in the Gazette specifying the date of the occurrence of each event referred to in that subsection.

(5)  A notice under subsection (4) –

(a) is not a statutory rule for the purposes of the Rules Publication Act 1953 ; and

(b) is to be published on, or as soon as practicable after, the occurrence of the relevant event; and

(c) is determinative of the date of the occurrence of the relevant event; and

(d) is to specify whether it is the first or second such notice.

(6)  As soon as practicable after the second such notice is published, the responsible Minister, after consulting the Minister administering the Forestry Act 1920 , is to lodge in the Central Plan Register a plan identifying the Crown land that has ceased to be reserved land by virtue of this section.