Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Section 378

AMENDMENT OF NOTICE ESTABLISHING KAKADU BOARD OF MANAGEMENT

I, SUSSAN LEY, Minister for the Environment, having agreed with the Northern Land Council, being an Aboriginal Land Council established under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, on the amendment of the notice published in Gazette No. GN42 on 26 October 1994 establishing the Kakadu Board of Management, hereby amend that notice pursuant to paragraph 378(1)(b) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 by:

a)      omitting from paragraph (c) of the notice, 'fourteen persons' and replacing with ‘twenty one persons’;

b)      omitting from paragraph (d) of the notice, ‘preconditions’ and replacing with ‘qualifications’; and

c)      omitting the Schedule to the notice and substituting the following schedule:

SCHEDULE

Qualifications for appointment as a member of the Kakadu Board of Management shall be:

a)      sixteen members each to be an adult Aboriginal person nominated by the traditional Aboriginal owners of Kakadu National Park;

b)      one member to be the Director of National Parks;

c)      one member to be the Assistant Secretary with responsibility for Kakadu National Park within the Parks Australia Division of the Department of State responsible for the Environment;

d)      one member to be a person employed in the tourism industry in the Northern Territory acceptable to the traditional Aboriginal owners of Kakadu National Park;

e)      one member to be a person prominent in nature conservation acceptable to the traditional Aboriginal owners of Kakadu National Park; and

f)        one member to be a person nominated by the Northern Territory and approved by the traditional Aboriginal owners of Kakadu National Park in accordance with s390A of the EPBC Act.

SIGNED

Federal Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley