Catchment Management Act 1989.

The objects of this Act are: to coordinate policies, programs and activities as they relate to total catchment management; and (b) to achieve active community participation in natural resource management; and (c) to identify and rectify natural resource degradation; and (d) to promote the sustainable use of natural resources; and (e) to provide stable and productive soil, high quality water and protective and productive vegetation cover within each of the State's water catchments. In order to give effect to those objects, this Act provides for a network of Catchment Management Committees, co-ordinated by a coordinating Committee, and Catchment Management Trusts linking the Government and the community to achieve the objectives of total catchment management, and also provides for Catchment Management Trusts to raise revenue for particular total catchment management purposes. For the purposes of this Act, total catchment management is the co-ordinated and sustainable use and management of land, water, vegetation and other natural resources on a water catchment basis so as to balance resource utilisation and conservation. The text consists of 70 sections divided into 4 Parts: Preliminary (I); Establishment of committees relating to catchment management (II); Catchment management trusts (III); Miscellaneous (IV). (Completed by 6 Schedules)