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Conservation Areas Act 1978 (Cap 362).

Pays/Territoire
Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
Type du document
Législation
Date
1978 (2006)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Source d'origine
Papua New Guinea Consolidated Legislation 2006.
Titre complet
Being an Act: (a) to provide for the preservation of the environment and of the national cultural inheritance by; (i) the conservation of sites and areas having particular biological, topographical, geological, historic, scientific or social importance; and (ii) the management of those sites and areas, in accordance with the fourth goals of the National Goals and Directive Principles; and (b) to give effect to those Goals and Principles under Section 25 of the Constitution; and (c) to establish a National Conservation Council; and for related purposes.
Sujet
Terre et sols, Espèces sauvages et écosystèmes
Mot clé
Aire protégée Institution Planification territoriale Expropriation Enregistrement
Aire géographique
Asie et Pacifique, Mélanésie, Océanie, Petits états insulaires en développement, Pacifique Sud
Résumé

The National Conservation Council is established under section 4. The Council shall advise the Minister on (establishment of) Conservation Areas and advise the Minister on the formulation of rules applicable to conservation areas, and on the administration and control of conservation areas and carry out other functions set out in section 9. The Minister or a group of interested persons may initiate procedures for the declaration of an area has particular biological, topographical, geological, historical, scientific or social significance or other special value for the present community or for future generations as a Conservation Area (sect. 12). A recommendation in this sense by the Minister shall be open for inspection and observations and thereafter be submitted to the Nation Executive Council (sects. 13 to 16). Conservation Areas shall be declared by the Head of State. The Minister shall keep a Register of conservation areas and shall establish a Conservation Area Management Committee for each conservation area (sects. 18 to 25). Functions of a Management Committee are set out in section 27. The Minister may make Rules for the make rules for the protection, development, land use activities, management and control of the conservation area pursuant to section 28. Sections 29 and following concern development in Conservation Areas.

Texte intégral
Anglais
Site web
www.paclii.org

Références - Législation

Amendé par

Conservation Areas (Amendment) Act 2014 (No. 2 of 2014).

Législation | Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée | 2014

Mot clé: Aire protégée, Enregistrement

Source: FAO, FAOLEX