New South Wales Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE ACT 1974 - SECT 21

21 Delegation

(1) The Minister may delegate the exercise of any function of the Minister under this Act (other than this power of delegation) to:

(a) the Director-General, or

(b) a member of staff of the Department of Environment and Climate Change, or

(c) a board of management, or

(d) any person, or any class of persons, authorised for the purposes of this subsection by the regulations.

(2) The Director-General may delegate the exercise of any function of the Director-General under this Act (other than this power of delegation) to:

(a) a member of staff of the Department of Environment and Climate Change, or

(b) a board of management, or

(c) any person, or any class of persons, authorised for the purposes of this subsection by the regulations.

(3) The power to delegate under subsection (1) or (2) extends to the following functions of the Minister or the Director-General, as the case may be:

(a) functions conferred or imposed by Acts that substantially provide for the reservation of land under this Act, or the vesting of land in the Minister for the purposes of Part 11 (for example, the Brigalow and Nandewar Community Conservation Area Act 2005 , the National Park Estate (Reservations) Act 2002 and the National Park Estate (Southern Region Reservations) Act 2000 ),

(b) functions conferred or imposed by Acts, that are exercisable:

(i) by the Minister as owner or occupier of land, being land acquired, or the subject of other dealings, by the Minister (whether on behalf of Her Majesty or on the Minister’s own behalf) under Part 11, or

(ii) by the Director-General as an occupier of land, being land of which the Director-General has care, control and management under this Act,

(c) functions conferred or imposed:

(i) on the Minister by clause 9 (2) or 10 (2) of Schedule 7A to the Crown Lands (Continued Tenures) Act 1989 , or

(ii) on the Director-General by section 14 (1A) of the Dividing Fences Act 1991 , or

(iii) on the Director-General (as an impounding authority) by the Impounding Act 1993 (other than by section 26 (1)), or

(iv) on the Director-General by section 36A (3) (d) (ii), 36B (4) (d) (ii) or 36D (3) (d) (ii) of the Local Government Act 1993 , or

(v) on the Director-General by section 15 (4) or (5) of the Plantations and Reafforestation Act 1999 , or

(vi) on the Director-General under the Public Health Act 1991 in relation to burials on land reserved or acquired under this Act, or

(vii) on the Director-General by section 47 (1) (d) or 100K (1) (b) of the Rural Fires Act 1997 , or

(viii) on the Director-General by section 25 (2) of the State Records Act 1998 .