New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FORESTRY ACT 2012 - SECT 69H

69H Annual Parliamentary reports and tabling of documents by Minister

(1) The Minister is to prepare an annual report on each forest agreement, including with respect to--

(a) ecologically sustainable forest management in the region, and

(b) compliance with any integrated forestry operations approval for the region.

(2) Each such report is to be tabled in each House of Parliament as soon as practicable after it is prepared. The report may be combined with any other report required to be tabled under this Part or any other annual report of a Public Service agency responsible to the Minister.

(3) The Minister must cause a copy of the following to be furnished to the Presiding Officer of each House of Parliament within 7 days after the relevant matter arises--

(a) each forest agreement made under this Act, and any amendment or termination of a forest agreement (together with a statement of the reasons for the amendment or termination),

(b) each integrated forestry operations approval granted under this Act, and any amendment, suspension or revocation of an integrated forestry operations approval (together with a statement of the reasons for the amendment, suspension or revocation).

(4) A copy of any document furnished to the Presiding Officer under subsection (3) is to be laid before that House within 15 sitting days of that House after it is received by the Presiding Officer.

(5) The Presiding Officer of a House of Parliament is to make a document furnished to the Presiding Officer under subsection (3) public as soon as practicable after receiving the document if it has not been sooner laid before that House, whether or not the House is in session.

(6) If such a document is made public by the Presiding Officer of a House of Parliament before it is laid before that House, it attracts the same privileges and immunities as if it had been laid before that House.

(7) In this section,
"Presiding Officer" means the President of the Legislative Council or the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. However--

(a) if there is a vacancy in the office of President, the reference to the President is a reference to the Clerk of the Legislative Council, or

(b) if there is a vacancy in the officer of Speaker, the reference to the Speaker is a reference to the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly.