PART 1 SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
Introduction
1.Purpose of this Part
2.Natural resources
3.Sustainable management of natural resources
4.Principles of sustainable management of natural resources
General duties of public authorities
5.General purpose of Natural Resources Body for Wales
6.Biodiversity and resilience of ecosystems duty
7.Biodiversity lists and duty to take steps to maintain and enhance biodiversity
State of natural resources report
8.Duty to prepare and publish state of natural resources report
National natural resources policy
9.Duty to prepare, publish and implement national natural resources policy
Area-based implementation of the national policy
10.Meaning of public body in sections 11 to 15
11.Area statements
12.Welsh Ministers’ directions to implement area statements
13.Guidance about implementing area statements
14.Duty of public bodies to provide information or other assistance to NRW
15.Duty of NRW to provide information or other assistance to public bodies
Land management agreements
16.Power to enter into land management agreements
17.Effect on successors in title of certain land management agreements
18.Application of Schedule 2 to the Forestry Act 1967 to land management agreements
19.Effect of agreements on dedication of highway and grant of easement
20.Transitional provisions
21.Crown land
Experimental schemes
22.Power to suspend statutory requirements for experimental schemes
23.Power of NRW to conduct experimental schemes etc.
General
24.Power to amend periods for the preparation and publication of documents
25.Regulations under this Part
26.General interpretation of this Part
27.Minor and consequential provision