New South Wales Consolidated Acts

REDFERN-WATERLOO AUTHORITY ACT 2004 - SECT 15

15 Functions-generally

(1) The Authority has the following functions:

(a) to promote, facilitate, manage, undertake and secure the social, economic, ecological and other sustainable development and use of the operational area, including the development and management of land, the provision of infrastructure and the establishment of public areas,

(b) to provide and promote housing choices in the operational area (including for Aboriginal residents),

(c) to provide and promote employment opportunities for local residents, commercial opportunities for local businesses and cultural development (including to address the needs of the Aboriginal community) in the operational area,

(d) to enhance and manage public places in the operational area and to improve, maintain and regulate the use of the public places,

(e) to promote, co-ordinate, organise, manage, undertake, secure, provide and conduct cultural, educational, commercial, recreational, entertainment and transport activities and facilities in the operational area,

(f) to do any other thing for the sustainable improvement of the operational area.

(2) In exercising its functions, the Authority is to have as its principal objective the achievement of the outcomes of the Redfern-Waterloo Plan.

(3) The Authority is to liaise with any government agency dealing with cultural, public housing, health and other social or community issues in the operational area.

(4) In exercising any of its functions, the Authority is, in such cases as it thinks appropriate, to consult with local government, the business community, the local indigenous community, local non-government agencies and the general community.

(5) The Authority cannot employ any staff.

Note: Staff may be employed under Chapter 1A of the Public Sector Employment and Management Act 2002 in the Government Service to enable the Authority to exercise its functions.