Stock Route Management Act 2002

In preparing a draft stock route network management plan, a local government must have regard to the following—

the principles of stock route network management;

the State stock route network management strategy in relation to which the plan is being prepared;

the maintenance of travelling stock facilities and pasture for the needs of travelling stock on the local government’s part of the stock route network;

the environmental and cultural values of the local government’s part of the stock route network;

the uses, other than in relation to travelling stock, of the local government’s part of the stock route network;

how the uses mentioned in paragraph (e) may affect the local government’s part of the stock route network being used for travelling stock;

whether the local government’s part of the stock route network needs management for controlled burning or grazing, declared pest treatment, erosion rehabilitation or pasture regeneration;

how the integrity of the local government’s part of the stock route network can be maintained so that the network is not fragmented;

the interests of the local community in the local government’s area, including, for example, the interests of landholders, Aboriginal communities, industry groups and members of the public.

For subsection (1), the local government’s part of the stock route network is the part of the network that is in the local government’s area.

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