(1) The Minister must,
before carrying out, construction or provision of major works —
(a)
cause to be prepared plans of the area affected together with the current
proposals for the works, and cause those plans and proposals, or certified
copies, to be deposited in the office of the Department nearest to the
locality in which the proposed works are to be situated; and
(b)
cause an advertisement to be published in the Government Gazette , and in one
or more newspapers generally circulating in the locality in which the proposed
works are to be situate, specifying —
(i)
a description of the proposed works; and
(ii)
the localities in which they will be situate; and
(iii)
the purposes for which they are required; and
(iv)
the times when, and places at which, the plans and
proposals may be inspected;
and
(c)
cause a notice specifying the details referred to in paragraph (b) to be
served on —
(i)
the owner and occupier of any land which is to be entered
for the purposes of the proposed works or which is, in the opinion of the
Minister, likely to be affected; and
(ii)
any local government in the area of which the proposed
works will be situate or which, in the opinion of the Minister, has a material
interest in the proposal or the services to be provided by the works.
(2) The plans and
proposals referred to in subsection (1) shall be open to inspection by any
person interested, at the times and places specified in the advertisement.
[Section 88 inserted: No. 25 of 1985 s. 19;
amended: No. 73 of 1995 s. 42; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 38 of 2007 s. 126 and
135; No. 25 of 2012 s. 98 and 109.]