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Environmental Trust Act 1998.

Country/Territory
Australia
Territorial subdivision
New South Wales
Document type
Legislation
Date
1998 (2018)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Long title
An Act to fund environmental restoration, rehabilitation, research and education and to fund land acquisition for the national parks estate; to constitute the Environmental Trust to administer the funding arrangements; to repeal the Environmental Restoration and Rehabilitation Trust Act 1990, the Environmental Research Trust Act 1990 and the Environmental Education Trust Act 1990; to amend the Forestry Restructuring and Nature Conservation Act 1995 and other Acts; and for other purposes.
Subject
Environment gen.
Keyword
Institution Special fund Pollution control Research Education
Geographical area
Asia and the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Indian Ocean, Oceania, South Pacific
Entry into force notes
This Act commences on a day or days to be appointed by proclamation.
Abstract

The objects of the Trust are as follows: (a) to encourage and support restoration and rehabilitation projects in both the public and the private sectors that will or are likely to prevent or reduce pollution, the waste-stream or environmental degradation, of any kind, within any part of New South Wales, (b) to promote research in both the public and the private sectors into environmental problems (c) to promote environmental education (d) to fund the acquisition of land for national parks and other categories of dedicated and reserved land for the national parks estate. The Trust may, for the purpose of promoting its objects:(a) make grants (either conditionally or subject to conditions) for projects, matters or purposes of a kind described in section 7, and (b) supervise the expenditure of money so granted, and (c) expend money as authorized by section 16 (Special provision for pollution clean-up costs), and (d) engage in such other activities relating to its objects as the Minister may approve.

Full text
English
Website
www6.austlii.edu.au