Overview and Background Part 2 – Environment Chapter 1 – Environmental principles Section 16 - Purpose of duties under sections 14 and 15
87.Section 16 sets out that the purpose of the duties established in sections 14 and 15 is to protect and improve the environment and contribute to sustainable development.
88.Subsection (2), read together with subsection (3), provides a definition of the environment for the purposes of subsection (1).