18—Adelaide Park Lands Management Strategy
(1) There will be an
Adelaide Park Lands Management Strategy .
(2) The management
strategy will be prepared and maintained by the Authority.
(3) The management
strategy must—
(a) in
relation to each piece of land within the Adelaide Park Lands owned, occupied
or under the care, control or management of the Crown, a State authority or
the Adelaide City Council—
(i)
describe the occupation, tenure and existing use of the
land; and
(ii)
provide information about the State Government's or
the Council's (as the case may be) plans for the use and management of the
land into the future; and
(iii)
identify any plans or feasible options for increasing
public access to the land for recreational purposes (taking into account the
existing or proposed use of the land); and
(iv)
if the land is owned, occupied or under the care, control
or management of the Crown or a State authority—provide information
about its suitability for use as park lands under the care, control and
management of the Adelaide City Council, or through transferring the land to
the Council, and, if appropriate, a program for its future use as park lands;
and
(b)
identify any land within the Adelaide Park Lands that is, or that is proposed
to be (according to information in the possession of the Authority), subject
to a lease or licence with a term exceeding 5 years (including any right of
extension), other than a lease or licence that falls within any exception
prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph; and
(c)
identify goals, set priorities and identify strategies with respect to the
management of the Adelaide Park Lands; and
(d)
include any other information or material prescribed by the regulations; and
(e) be
consistent (insofar as is reasonably practicable) with any plan, policy or
statement prepared by or on behalf of the State Government and identified by
the regulations for the purposes of this section.
(4) The Authority
must, in relation to a proposal to establish or vary the management
strategy—
(a)
prepare a draft of the proposal; and
(b)
refer the proposal to the Minister, the Adelaide City Council, and any
State authority or adjoining council that has a direct interest in the
proposal; and
(c) at a
time determined to be appropriate by the Authority, by public advertisement,
invite any interested person to make written submissions to the Authority
within a period specified by the Authority (being not less than 1 month from
the date of publication of the advertisement), and to attend a public meeting
to be held in relation to the proposal.
(5)
Subsection (4)(c) does not apply if the proposal relates to a variation
of the management strategy that is, in the opinion of the Authority, of minor
significance.
(6) The Authority may,
on the basis of any consultation undertaken or submissions received under
subsection (4) (or as it thinks fit), amend the proposal.
(7) The Authority must
then prepare a report on the matter (incorporating the proposal, as finalised
by the Authority) and furnish copies of the report to—
(a) the
Minister; and
(b) the
Adelaide City Council.
(8) The Minister and
the Adelaide City Council must confer on the report (and proposal) and may
then—
(a)
adopt the proposal with or without amendment; or
(b)
refer the proposal back to the Authority for further consideration and, if
appropriate, amendment and then subsequently adopt the proposal, with or
without amendment, after taking into account any report or recommendation from
the Authority.
(9) The Minister must,
within 6 sitting days after a proposal is adopted under subsection (8),
cause copies of the management strategy (with any amendments) to be laid
before both Houses of Parliament.
(10) The Minister and
the Adelaide City Council must ensure that copies of the management strategy
are kept available for public inspection—
(a) in
the case of the Minister—at an office designated by the Minister;
(b) in
the case of the Adelaide City Council—at an office of the Council
designated by the Council.
(11) A State authority
and the Adelaide City Council must provide such information as the Authority
may reasonably require for the purposes of preparing or revising the
management strategy under this section.
(12) For the purposes
of this section, the management strategy may be varied by the substitution of
a new management strategy.
(13) The Authority
must prepare the management strategy within 2 years after the commencement of
this section.
(14) The Authority
must undertake a comprehensive review of the management strategy at least once
in every 5 years.