Falls Creek Alpine Resort Management Board

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Establishment

The Falls Creek Alpine Resort Management Board was established when the Alpine Resorts (Management) Act 1997 (the Act) came into operation on 30 April 1998 (Victorian Government Gazette, G 17, 30 April 1998, pg 926). It established a set of Statutory Rules that Victorian Resorts were to operate under. The Act abolished the Alpine Resorts Commission (VA 2645) and the established the Alpine Resorts Co-ordinating Council and an Alpine Resort board for each of the six resorts, including the Falls Creek Alpine Resort Management Board. Under the Act, the Board was deemed to be a committee of management. These changes followed a review of the Alpine Resorts Commission in 1997 and an amendment to the Alpine Resorts Act 1983.

The Board was to consist of not less than three and not more than seven members appointed by the Minister.

Functions as per the Act included: 

• To act as a committee of management of any Crown land deemed to be permanently reserved under the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978 in the resort
• To contribute to the overall promotion of alpine resorts.
• To develop a tourism and marketing strategy and to collect and expend voluntary contributions from commercial undertakings in the resort for this purpose.
• To provide the following services - garbage disposal, water supply, gas, drainage, sewerage, electricity, roads, fire protection, snowmaking - and to charge contributions for the provisions of those services.
• To provide transport services in the resort.
• To collect fees prescribed by the regulations for the resort.
• to attract investment for the improvement of the resort.

As of 2004, the Alpine Resorts (Management) (Amendment) Act 2004 made provision for the development, promotion, management and use of the resorts on a sustainable basis and in a manner that is compatible with the alpine environment, having regard to environmental and ecological considerations (in particular, climate change), economic considerations, and cultural heritage considerations (in particular, Indigenous cultural heritage considerations). 

Further to this, the Board was required to contribute to the development of the Alpine Resorts Strategic Plan and other strategic planning for alpine resorts as a whole, which was managed, monitored and coordinated by the Alpine Resorts Co-ordinating Council. 

Abolishment 

As of the 1 October 2022 (Victorian Government Gazette, S 371, 26 July 2022), the Falls Creek Alpine Resort Management Board was abolished under the Alpine Resorts Legislation Amendment Act 2022, along with all other Alpine Resort Boards. In its place, the Act established a new body known as Alpine Resorts Victoria (VA 5736) that subsumed management of all Alpine Resorts as well as the functions of the Alpine Resorts Co-ordinating Council.