61Reserve management plans

61 Reserve management plans

(1)  The Minister, by notice to the Secretary, may require the Secretary to prepare and submit to the Minister a draft of a reserve management plan (a draft reserve management plan).

(2)  A reserve management plan, and a draft reserve management plan –

(a) may relate to one or more corridors or parts of a corridor; and

(b) are to specify the manner in which a responsible manager is, subject to this Act, to manage the corridor; and

(c) may specify the uses that may, or may not, be made on a corridor to which the plan relates; and

(d) are to contain any matter that is prescribed to be required to be included in such a plan.

(3)  The Secretary may submit to the Minister a draft reserve management plan prepared by the Secretary.

(4)  The Minister, after receiving under subsection (3) a draft reserve management plan in relation to a corridor, may –

(a) require the Secretary to alter the plan and submit the draft plan, as so altered, to the Minister; or

(b) by notice, declare a plan, in the terms of the draft reserve management plan, to be a reserve management plan in relation to the corridor on and from a day specified in the notice; or

(c) by notice, revoke a reserve management plan in relation to the corridor on and from the day specified in the notice.

(5)  The Minister, by notice to the Secretary, may require the Secretary to publish, or make available to the public, in the manner the Minister determines, a reserve management plan.

(6)  The Minister may at any time review a reserve management plan and issue a requirement under subsection (1) .

(7)  The Secretary must periodically review a reserve management plan and, if satisfied that the plan requires amendment, submit to the Minister under subsection (3) a draft reserve management plan containing the amendments.

(8)  The managing authority in relation to a corridor must implement a reserve management plan in relation to the corridor.