27   Preparation of annual implementation programs

(1)  An authority is required to prepare and submit to the Minister each year an implementation program setting out the catchment activities the authority proposes to carry out during each financial year of the authority (the annual implementation program of the authority).

(2)  A program is to seek to give effect to any catchment action plan of the authority.

(3)  If a program requires a person or body other than the authority concerned to carry out any activity, the authority is to provide the Minister with evidence that the person or body has agreed to carry out that activity.

(4)  The Minister may approve of the first program of an authority being prepared for a period that is not a single financial year of the authority.