New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FORESTRY ACT 1916 - SECT 27H

27H Restrictions on issue of clearing licences

Nothing in section 27G authorises the commission to issue a clearing licence:

(a) in respect of Crown-timber lands within a State forest that are not the subject of a forest lease or any other lease from the Crown,

(b) in respect of Crown-timber lands within a flora reserve,

(b1) in respect of Crown-timber lands which are the subject of a lease under the Western Lands Act 1901 and are not within a State forest or timber reserve,

(c) where the Crown-timber lands are:

(i) held subject to a tenure specified or described in the First Schedule-except to the holder of that tenure,

(ii) purchase-tenure land, as defined in section 25C-except to the owner, as so defined, of that land, or

(iii) held under a forest lease-except to the lessee,

(c1) in respect of land that is vested in, owned by, held on trust by or leased (as lessee) by the Nature Conservation Trust of New South Wales constituted by the Nature Conservation Trust Act 2001 ,

(c2) in respect of land that is the subject of a Trust agreement under the Nature Conservation Trust Act 2001 ,

(d) in respect of protected land within the meaning of the Native Vegetation Conservation Act 1997 ,

(d1) to clear any native vegetation within the meaning of the Native Vegetation Act 2003 , or

(e) to ringbark or otherwise kill or destroy trees having economic value.