Division 1 National Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council

22   The Council

(1)  There shall be a National Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council.

(2)  Schedule 7 has effect.

23   Functions and duties of Council

(1)  The Council has the following functions:

(a)  to provide advice to the Minister and the Director-General on:

(i)  strategies for attaining the objects of this Act, and

(ii)  the development, implementation and review of the policies and plans of the Service directed towards achieving those objects, and

(iii)  strategies for promoting, consistent with this Act, the conservation of natural and cultural heritage outside the reserve system, and

(iv)  the care, control and management of areas reserved under this Act and the development, implementation, review, amendment and alteration of plans of management for those areas, and

(v)  the preservation and protection of wildlife, and

(vi)  conservation agreements and conservation areas, and

(vii)  wilderness areas and wild rivers, and

(viii)  any matter referred to the Council for advice under this Act or by the Minister or the Director-General or that the Council considers necessary for the administration of this Act.

(b)  to consult with the Director-General on the Service’s operations and on the administration of this Act,

(c)  such other functions as are conferred on it by or under this or any other Act.

(2)  Subject to section 8 (10), the Director-General shall furnish to the Council full information in relation to any matters arising out of the administration of this Act which the Council may require.

(3)  Subject to section 58W (2), the Jenolan Caves Reserve Trust is to furnish to the Council such information in relation to the care, control and management of Jenolan Caves Reserve Trust lands as the Council may require.