Department of Environment and Natural Resources (I) (GA610)

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources was created in 1993 by the alteration of the title of the Department of Environment and Land management to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. (1)

The Department includes the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Water Resources Branch of the Engineering and Water Supply Department.

The functions of the Department include surveying services (which include maintenance of the State's surveying infrastructure, mapping and spatial reference systems); registration services for land and property ensuring indefeasibility of title and facilitating land related transactions; valuation services for revenue raising purposes; the acquisition and disposal of Government property; Crown land conservation, property management and tenure administration services; maintenance of the major land information computer systems such as LOTS (Land Ownership and Tenure System), TATS (Torrens Automated Title System); Administration of Repatriation and War concessions (transferred from the Commonwealth Department of Primary Industry); Natural Resources policy development and the establishment and maintenance of National Parks.

Sources:

(1) SAGG, 27 August 1993, p1018.