New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 44

44 Periodic auditing of management plans

(1) The Minister is to ensure that a management plan is audited, at intervals of not more than 5 years, for the purpose of ascertaining whether its provisions are being given effect to.

(2) An audit under this section is to be carried out by an audit panel appointed by the Minister in consultation with the Water Management Committee where one exists.

(3) In setting terms of reference for the preparation of a management plan to replace an existing management plan, the Minister must have regard to the results of the most recent audit conducted under this section in relation to the existing management plan.