62Functions of the Board

62 Functions of the Board

(1) The Board has the following functions: (a) to advise any or all of the relevant Ministers about: (i) performance indicators for; and (ii) the implementation of; and (iii) the priorities for research in relation to; prescribed measures that: (iv) increase the land sector’s resilience to climate change; or (v) improve long‑term farm productivity; or (vi) assist landholders and regional communities to benefit from the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from the land sector; or (vii) assist landholders and regional communities to benefit from the sequestration of carbon in soil, in living biomass, or in dead organic matter; (b) to advise the Environment Minister about: (i) performance indicators for; and (ii) the implementation of; and (iii) guidelines for the funding of; Biodiversity Fund program measures that: (iv) protect, manage or restore biodiverse ecosystems; or (v) establish, protect, manage, improve or restore levels of carbon sequestered in living biomass, or in dead organic matter, so far as that living biomass or dead organic matter, as the case may be, is in a biodiverse ecosystem; (c) to advise any or all of the relevant Ministers about any other matters that: (i) are specified in a legislative instrument made by the Environment Minister; and (ii) relate to measures, or proposed measures, that assist the land sector to deal with climate change; (d) to do anything incidental to or conducive to the performance of the above functions. (2) For the purposes of this section, each of the following is a relevant Minister: (a) the Environment Minister; (b) the Climate Change Minister; (c) the Agriculture Minister.