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National Parks Act 1980

Control and management of national parks - Management plans

45: Preparation of management plans

You could also call this:

"Making plans to take care of national parks"

You need to have a management plan for each national park. This plan explains how to take care of the park according to the law. When this law started, if a park already had a plan, it would still work under the new law. If a plan was being made but wasn't finished when the law started, they could still finish and approve it. For new parks created after this law began, they have two years to make a plan. The plan must follow the rules set out in this law and other parts of the law that talk about management plans.

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Part 5Control and management of national parks
Management plans

45Preparation of management plans

  1. A management plan shall be prepared for each park in accordance with this section and sections 46 to 48.

  2. The management plan shall provide for the management of the park in accordance with this Act.

  3. If, at the commencement of this Act, there is an approved management plan for a park, this section and sections 46 to 48 shall apply to that plan as if it had been approved under this Act on the date on which it was approved.

  4. Where any management plan has been prepared but not approved at the commencement of this Act, that plan may be approved under section 48 as if it had been prepared in accordance with section 47.

  5. Where a park is constituted after the commencement of this Act, a management plan shall be prepared in respect of that park within 2 years after constitution of that park.

Notes
  • Section 45(4): replaced, on , by section 2 of the National Parks Amendment Act 1982 (1982 No 86).