New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WILDERNESS ACT 1987 - SECT 2

2 Definitions

(1) In this Act:

"conservation agreement" has the same meaning as it has in the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 .

"conservation area" has the same meaning as it has in the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 .

"Council" means the National Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council constituted under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 .

"development" , in relation to a wilderness area, means:

(a) the erection of a building in that area,

(b) the carrying out of a work in, on, over or under that area,

(c) the use of that area or of a building or work in that area,

(d) the subdivision of that area, and

(e) the clearing of vegetation in that area.

"Director-General" means the Director-General of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water.

"statutory authority" means:

(a) a Government Department,

(c) a council, a county council or a joint organisation within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1993 , and

(d) any other body constituted by or under an Act.

"wilderness area" means lands (including subterranean lands) declared to be a wilderness area under this Act or the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 .

"wilderness protection agreement" means an agreement entered into under section 10.

(2) A reference in this section:

(a) to the erection of a building includes a reference to the rebuilding of, the making of structural alterations to, or the enlargement or extension of a building or the placing or relocating of a building on land,

(b) to the carrying out of a work includes a reference to the rebuilding of, the making of alterations to, or the enlargement or extension of, a work, and

(c) to the subdivision of land is a reference to the subdivision of land as defined by section 4B of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 .

(3) In this Act:

(a) a reference to a function includes a reference to a power, authority and duty, and

(b) a reference to the exercise of a function includes, where the function is a duty, a reference to the performance of the duty.