South Australian Numbered Acts South Australian Numbered Acts18—Substitution of section 28
Section 28—delete the section and substitute:
28—Granting of corresponding licence for pilot lease
(1) The Minister may grant a corresponding licence for a pilot lease containing specified conditions if—
(a) the Minister is satisfied that—
(i) the grant of the licence would be consistent with the objects of this Act and any prescribed criteria or other relevant provisions of an applicable aquaculture policy; and
(ii) the applicant is a suitable person to be granted the licence; and
(i) has caused public notice of the application to be published in a newspaper circulating generally in the State and invited interested persons to make written submissions on the application within the period allowed in the notice; and
(ii) has taken any such submissions into account; and
(c) the matter has been referred to the EPA under Part 8 and the EPA has approved the granting of the licence.
(2) The Minister must, at the request of a person who has made a written submission to the Minister under subsection (1), give the person a written statement of the Minister's reasons for the decision made by the Minister in relation to the matter on which submissions were invited.