1.6.5  'Best endeavours'

Government will not agree to open-ended 'best endeavours' or 'reasonable endeavours' clauses. It will define these obligations by reference to specific matters which are no wider than strictly necessary. These matters will include:

(a)  an acknowledgment that to the extent that government has any such obligations it will take steps to bring about the relevant outcome so far as it is reasonably able to do so, having regard to its resources and other responsibilities;

 (b)  an express statement that by undertaking to exercise reasonable or best endeavours government does not agree to:

(i)  interfere with or influence the exercise by any person of a statutory power or discretion;

(ii)  exercise a power or discretion or otherwise act in a manner that it regards as not in the public interest; or

(iii)  develop policy or legislate by reference only or predominantly to the interests of the project.