South Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ACT 2004 - SECT 42

42—Board's power to provide financial assistance etc

        (1)         A regional NRM board may provide financial or any other form of assistance—

            (a)         to councils, persons carrying on business, community or volunteer groups or any other persons if the council, person or group is engaged in an activity, whether in the board's region or not, that will improve the state of any natural resources, or that relates in any other way to the management of natural resources, taking into account the provisions of the board's regional NRM plan; or

            (b)         to assist persons who have been detrimentally affected as a result of the board's implementation of its regional NRM plan; or

            (c)         in any other circumstances as the board thinks fit.

        (2)         A regional NRM board may require a person who wishes to obtain financial or other assistance under subsection (1) to make a written submission to the board setting out—

            (a)         the nature of the assistance requested (and, in the case of financial assistance, the amount requested); and

            (b)         the purpose or purposes for which and the manner in which the assistance will be used; and

            (c)         the reasons why, in the applicant's opinion, the granting of the assistance by the board is justified.

        (3)         A regional NRM board may make copies of submissions received by it under subsection (2) available for inspection and purchase by members of the public.

        (4)         A regional NRM board may provide financial or other assistance on such conditions as the board thinks fit.

        (5)         A regional NRM board must ensure that a report on any financial assistance provided under this section is included in its annual report.