13Review of classification as state conservation area

13 Review of classification as state conservation area

13 Review of classification as state conservation area

(1) This section applies to land described in Schedule 1, 4 or 5 that is reserved by this Act as state conservation area.

(2) The Director-General of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water and the Director-General of the Department of Industry and Investment are required to conduct a joint review, before 1 January 2012, of the status of the land to which this section applies.

(3) The review is to determine which areas of the land should remain as state conservation area and which areas of the land should be reserved as national park, having regard to evidence of the mineral values of the land. The determination (and the reasons for the determination) are required to be publicly notified by those Directors-General.

(4) On 1 January 2012, the land to which this section applies (other than any land which it is determined under subsection (3) should remain as state conservation area) is taken to be reserved as national park under the relevant Schedule to this Act (and the reservation of the land as state conservation area is revoked).

(5) A determination under this section may apply to part only of a particular description of land in a relevant Schedule.

(6) The Director-General of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water may, by notice published on the NSW legislation website, amend a relevant Schedule to this Act to include in a reservation of land effected by the operation of subsection (4) particulars of its reservation as national park on 1 January 2012, including the name of the national park concerned.

Note.

Schedule 7 contains an amendment to the Brigalow and Nandewar Community Conservation Area Act 2005 that requires a similar review in relation to areas reserved as Zone 3 under that Act.

s 13: Am 2011 No 55, Sch 2 [4].