means the acting with the advice of the Executive Council of the Northern Territory.

means the established under section 16.

or

Region

means:

means a member of the Advisory Committee other than the Supervising Scientist or the Director of National Parks.

means the of the Advisory Committee, or the of the Technical Committee, as the context requires.

means the Advisory or the Technical , as the context requires.

means an area that was a declared under section 8A of the

National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975

.

means the person holding office as Director of Conservation under the

Conservation Commission Act 1980

of the Northern Territory or, if a person is acting as the Director, the person so acting.

means a dynamic complex of plant, animal and micro‐organism communities and their non‐living environment interacting as a functional unit.

includes:

(a) ecosystems and their constituent parts, including people and communities; and

(b) natural and physical resources; and

(c) the qualities and characteristics of locations, places and areas; and

means mining operations other than uranium mining operations.

means the Alligator Rivers Region Research .

means a of the Advisory Committee, or a of the Technical Committee, as the context requires.

means a naturally occurring substance or mixture of substances.

means any operations or activities for or in connection with, or incidental to, the mining (whether by underground or surface working) or recovery of minerals or the production of material from minerals and, in particular, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes:

means the report known as the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Second Report that was presented to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs on 17 May 1977.

means an obligation, condition, restriction or prohibition.

includes any waters within the ebb and flow of the tide.

means the for the Alligator Rivers Region.

means the established under section 22A.