23Functions and duties of Council

23 Functions and duties of Council

23 Functions and duties of Council

(1) The Council has the following functions—

(a) to provide advice to the Minister and the Secretary on—

(i) strategies for attaining the objects of this Act, and

(ii) the development, implementation and review of the policies and plans of the Service directed towards achieving those objects, and

(iii) strategies for promoting, consistent with this Act, the conservation of natural and cultural heritage outside the reserve system, and

(iv) the care, control and management of areas reserved under this Act, including, if requested by the Minister, the content of specific plans of management, and

(v) (Repealed)

(vi) conservation agreements and conservation areas, and

(vii) wilderness areas and wild rivers, and

(viii) any matter referred to the Council for advice under this Act or by the Minister or the Secretary or that the Council considers necessary for the administration of this Act.

(b) to consult with the Secretary on the Service’s operations and on the administration of this Act,

(c) such other functions as are conferred on it by or under this or any other Act.

(2) Subject to section 8 (10), the Secretary shall furnish to the Council full information in relation to any matters arising out of the administration of this Act which the Council may require.

(3) (Repealed)

s 23: Am 1983 No 183, Sch 3 (7); 1987 No 158, Sch 1 (4); 1987 No 197, Sch 1 (5); 1991 No 55, Sch 1 (4); 1996 No 58, Sch 1 [8]; 1996 No 142, Sch 1 [3] [4]; 1997 No 2, Sch 1 [5]; 2001 No 130, Schs 1 [76] [77], 2 [2]; 2005 No 83, Sch 1 [4]; 2016 No 63, Sch 11.5 [7]; 2021 No 47, Sch 1.2[1].