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NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE ACT 1974 - SECT 30E
National parks
(1) The purpose of reserving land as a national park is to identify, protect
and conserve areas containing outstanding or representative ecosystems,
natural or cultural features or landscapes or phenomena that provide
opportunities for public appreciation and inspiration and sustainable visitor
or tourist use and enjoyment so as to enable those areas to be managed in
accordance with subsection (2).
(2) A national park is to be managed in
accordance with the following principles-- (a) the conservation of
biodiversity, the maintenance of ecosystem function, the protection of
geological and geomorphological features and natural phenomena and the
maintenance of natural landscapes,
(b) the conservation of places, objects,
features and landscapes of cultural value,
(c) the protection of the
ecological integrity of one or more ecosystems for present and future
generations,
(d) the promotion of public appreciation and understanding of
the national park's natural and cultural values,
(e) provision for
sustainable visitor or tourist use and enjoyment that is compatible with the
conservation of the national park's natural and cultural values,
(f)
provision for the sustainable use (including adaptive reuse) of any buildings
or structures or modified natural areas having regard to the conservation of
the national park's natural and cultural values,
(fa) provision for the
carrying out of development in any part of a special area (within the meaning
of the Hunter Water Act 1991 ) in the national park that is permitted under
section 185A having regard to the conservation of the national park's natural
and cultural values,
(g) provision for appropriate research and monitoring.
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