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NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE ACT 1974 - SECT 61
Declaration of wild rivers
(1) Subject to section 61A, the Secretary may, by notification published in
the Gazette, declare any river or part of a river (when within lands reserved
under this Act) to be a wild river.
(2) The Secretary may, by further
notification published in the Gazette, vary or revoke any such declaration.
(3) The Secretary may make a declaration under subsection (1)-- (a) only with
the concurrence of the Minister administering the Water Management Act 2000 ,
if the declaration will have an impact on functions carried out under that
Act, and
(b) in respect of a river or part of a river in a
state conservation area, only with the concurrence of the Minister
administering the Mining Act 1992 , if the declaration will have an impact on
functions carried out under that Act.
(4) The purpose of declaring a river or
part of a river as a wild river is to identify, protect and conserve any water
course or water course network, or any connected network of water bodies, or
any part of those, of natural origin, exhibiting substantially natural flow
(whether perennial, intermittent or episodic) and containing remaining
examples, in a condition substantially undisturbed since European occupation
of New South Wales, of-- (a) the biological, hydrological and geomorphological
processes associated with river flow, and
(b) the biological, hydrological
and geomorphological processes in those parts of the catchment with which the
river is intrinsically linked,
so as to enable that river or part to be
managed in accordance with subsection (5).
(5) A wild river is to be managed
in accordance with the following principles-- (a) the restoration (wherever
possible) and maintenance of the natural biological, hydrological and
geomorphological processes associated with wild rivers and their catchments,
including natural flow variability,
(b) the identification, conservation and
appropriate management of Aboriginal objects and Aboriginal places.
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