Water Act 1989
50Appointment of panel
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50 Appointment of panel
(1) The Minister may appoint a panel of persons to consider submissions made on an application to which section 49 applies.
(2) Subject to anything specified by the Minister when appointing the panel, a panel may regulate its own proceedings.
(3) If submissions on the application have not been invited by a notice given under section 49(2), the panel must cause a notice to be published in a newspaper circulating generally in the area concerned inviting submissions on the application within the period specified in the notice.
(4) After considering all submissions referred or made to it, the panel must report its findings to the Minister within the period specified by him or her.
(5) The panel may include in its report any recommendations that it thinks fit.
(6) A member of a panel is entitled to be paid any fees and allowances fixed by the Governor in Council.