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NATIONAL PARKS ACT 1975 - SECT 10

National Parks Advisory Council

S. 10(1) amended by No. 85/2006 s. 173(Sch.  1 item 8.2), substituted by No. 53/2017 s. 19.

    (1)     For the purposes of this Act, there is a National Parks Advisory Council consisting of 8 members appointed by the Governor in Council of whom—

        (a)     2 must be persons with skills or experience relating to the preservation and the protection of parks; and

        (b)     one must be a person who is a professor or teacher of ecology, biology or earth science at a university in Victoria; and

        (c)     one must be a person with experience in local government who resides in a municipality in which there is a park; and

        (d)     4 must be persons (at least 2 of whom reside outside the metropolitan area) with experience in matters affecting the interests of the community.

S. 10(2) inserted by No. 85/2006 s. 173(Sch. 1 item 8.3).

    (2)     In this section "metropolitan area" means—

        (a)     metropolitan area within the meaning of section 201 of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works Act 1958 (as in force immediately before its repeal); or

        (b)     any area declared by the Governor in Council under subsection (3) to be the metropolitan area.

S. 10(3) inserted by No. 85/2006 s. 173(Sch. 1 item 8.3).

    (3)     The Governor in Council may, by Order published in the Government Gazette, declare an area to be the metropolitan area for the purposes of this section.

S. 10(4) inserted by No. 85/2006 s. 173(Sch. 1 item 8.3).

    (4)     An Order made under subsection (3) may apply, adopt or incorporate any matter contained in any document formulated, issued, prescribed or published by any person, whether—

        (a)     wholly or partially or as amended by order or other instrument; or

        (b)     as formulated, issued, prescribed or published at the time the order is made or at any time before then.

S. 10(5) inserted by No. 85/2006 s. 173(Sch. 1 item 8.3), amended by No. 79/2013 s. 17.

    (5)     Subsection (4) does not apply to the incorporation of a map or plan of an area of land unless the map or plan is lodged in the Central Plan Office.



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