New South Wales Consolidated Acts New South Wales Consolidated ActsThe objects of this Act are:
(a) to encourage agricultural landowners and their tenants and sharefarmers to have regard, in farming practices to the principles of ecologically sustainable development (as described by section 6 (2) of the Protection of the Environment Administration Act 1991 ) insofar as they are capable of applying to those farming practices and, to maintaining sustainable agricultural production and preventing the degradation of the environment, and
(b) to encourage the use of written agreements for agricultural tenancies and to set out terms that are taken to apply to all agricultural tenancies, including terms setting out rights of the parties, and
(c) to provide a mechanism for resolution of disputes by the parties to agricultural tenancies themselves through mediation, and
(d) to provide an arbitration mechanism for settling disputes between parties to agricultural tenancies that is outside the court system (the procedures for such arbitration to be as quick, cheap and free of legal technicality as is consistent with doing justice between the parties).