Part 6Director of National Parks and Environment Secretary

Part 6 Director of National Parks and Environment Secretary

3.31 Notice to Director of National Parks

(1) The Director of National Parks is responsible for the administration, management and control of Commonwealth reserved and conservation zones under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

(2) If a proposed subscriber connection activity of a carrier is likely to be undertaken in, or have an effect on, any of the areas for which the Director is responsible, the carrier must notify the Director in writing of the activity.

3.32 Notice to Environment Secretary

(1) Before engaging in a subscriber connection activity, a carrier must take all reasonable steps to find out whether the carrier would be required to notify the Environment Secretary of the activity under this section.

(2) However, the carrier and the Environment Secretary may agree, in writing, on how the carrier is to find out whether the carrier would be required to notify the Environment Secretary.

(3) A carrier must notify the Environment Secretary, in writing, of a proposed subscriber connection activity, at least 10 business days before the start of the activity, if subsection (4), (5) or (6) applies to the activity.

(f) could damage the whole or a part of a place, or an ecological community, essential to the continuing existence of a threatened species of flora or fauna; or

(j) could have a significant impact on the value of the National Heritage List place or a World Heritage List property; or.

(5) The carrier must notify the Environment Secretary if the carrier proposes to engage in the activity at any of the following places:

(a) a declared Heritage Property (as defined in the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999);

(c) an area that, under a law of the Commonwealth, is reserved wholly or principally for nature conservation purposes (however described);

(6) The carrier must notify the Environment Secretary if the carrier proposes to engage in the activity at or near an area or thing of particular significance to Aboriginal persons, or Torres Strait Islanders, in accordance with their traditions.

(a) a carrier must notify the Environment Secretary of a proposed subscriber connection activity; and

(c) the carrier has an agreement with the Director under section 3.30 or 3.31 for alternative notification arrangements; and

(a) tell the Secretary, when notifying the Secretary, that the carrier has the agreement with the Director; and

3.33 Notification agreements

(1) A carrier must give a copy of each agreement entered into by the carrier under sections 3.30 to 3.32 to the ACMA within 30 business days after entering into the agreement.