New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000 - SECT 49

49 Consideration of management plans by public authorities

(1) When exercising its functions, a public authority must have regard to the provisions of any management plan to the extent to which they apply to the public authority.

(2) For the purposes of this section, a management plan may be expressed so as to apply--

(a) to a specified public authority, to a specified class of public authorities or to public authorities generally, and

(b) to a specified function, to a specified class of functions or to functions generally.

(3) This section neither restricts a public authority's statutory discretions nor authorises a public authority to do anything inconsistent with its statutory or other legal obligations.