NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1992 - SECT 137 Licences to be consistent with management principles, and management intent, management plan or conservation agreement

NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1992 - SECT 137

137 Licences to be consistent with management principles, and management intent, management plan or conservation agreement

(1) A licence, permit or other authority issued or given under a regulation or another Act to take, use, keep or interfere with a cultural or natural resource of a protected area must be consistent with—

(a) the management principles for the area; and

(b) any of the following for the area—

(i) the interim or declared management intent;

(ii) a management plan;

(iii) a conservation agreement.

(2) A licence, permit or other authority issued or given under a regulation to—

(a) take, use or keep protected wildlife; or

(b) abandon, release, keep, use or introduce international or prohibited wildlife;

must be consistent with—

(c) the management principles for the wildlife; and

(d) the declared management intent, or conservation plan, applicable to the wildlife.