Mount Buller and Mount Stirling Alpine Resort Management Board

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Establishment 

The Mount Buller and Mount Stirling Alpine Resort Management Board was established on the 1 November 2004 (Victorian Government Gazette, G 41, 7 October 2004) when the Mount Buller Alpine Resort Management Board (VA 5827) was merged with the Mount Stirling Alpine Resort Management Board (VA 5828). The new board subsumed responsibility for the management of both Alpine resorts. 

The Board was established as a statutory authority under the Alpine Resorts (Management) (Amendment) Act 2004 (the Act). It reported to the Minister responsible for environment and Crown land management. The Board was to consist of not less than three and not more than four members appointed by the Minister.

Function 

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.

The Board was responsible for the development, promotion, management and use of the Mount Buller and Mount Stirling Alpine Resorts. All functions and operations of the Resorts had to be performed 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 Mount Buller and Mount Stirling 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.