New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT ACT 1989 - SECT 5

5 Objects of Act

(1) The objects of this Act are:

(a) to co-ordinate policies, programs and activities as they relate to total catchment management, and

(b) to achieve active community participation in natural resource management, and

(c) to identify and rectify natural resource degradation, and

(d) to promote the sustainable use of natural resources, and

(e) to provide stable and productive soil, high quality water and protective and productive vegetation cover within each of the State’s water catchments.

(2) In order to give effect to those objects, this Act:

(a) provides for a network of Catchment Management Committees, co-ordinated by a Co-ordinating Committee, and Catchment Management Trusts linking the Government and the community to achieve the objectives of total catchment management, and

(b) provides for Catchment Management Trusts to raise revenue for particular total catchment management purposes.