(a) to provide directly or on behalf
of other levels of government, after due consultation, adequate, equitable and
appropriate services and facilities for the Island community and to ensure
that those services and facilities are managed efficiently and effectively,
(b) to exercise community leadership,
(c) to exercise its powers,
authorities, duties and functions in a manner that is consistent with and
actively promotes the multicultural principles,
(d) to promote and to provide
and plan for the needs of children,
(e) to manage, protect, restore, enhance
and conserve the Island's environment in a manner that is consistent with and
promotes the principles of ecologically sustainable development set out in
section 6 (2) of the Protection of the Environment Administration Act 1991 ,
(f) to manage, protect, restore, enhance and conserve:
in a manner that
recognises the World Heritage values in respect of which the Island is
inscribed on the World Heritage List referred to in the United Nations
Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural
Heritage ,
(g) subject to paragraphs (e) and (f), to promote the Island as a
tourist destination,
(h) to have regard to the long term and cumulative
effects of its decisions,
(i) to bear in mind that it is the custodian and
trustee of public assets and to effectively account for and manage the assets
for which it is responsible,
(j) to facilitate the involvement of members of
the Board, members of the public, users of facilities and services and the
Board's staff in the development, improvement and co-ordination of the Board's
powers, authorities, duties and functions,
(k) to raise funds for Island
community purposes by the fair imposition of charges and fees, by income
earned from investments and, when appropriate, by borrowings and grants,
(l)
to keep the Island community and the State government (and through it, the
wider community) informed about its activities,
(m) to ensure that, in the
exercise of its regulatory powers, authorities, duties and functions, it acts
consistently and without bias, particularly where an activity of the Board is
affected,
(n) to be a responsible employer.
(2) The Board, in the exercise
of its powers, authorities, duties and functions, must pursue its charter but
nothing in the charter or this section gives rise to, or can be taken into
account in, any civil cause of action.
