New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PLANTATIONS AND REAFFORESTATION ACT 1999 - SECT 11

11 Application for authorisation of plantation or proposed plantation

(1) An application for the authorisation of the plantation or proposed plantation under this Act may be made to the Minister:

(a) by an owner of the plantation or proposed plantation, or

(b) by any other person with the consent in writing of an owner of the plantation or proposed plantation.

(2) An application for authorisation must:

(a) be in such form as the Minister may determine, and

(b) be accompanied by such reasonable administrative fee to cover the costs of dealing with the application as the Minister may determine, and

(c) identify the area or areas of land comprising the plantation or proposed plantation by way of a map or other suitable means, and

(d) state the class of plantation for which authorisation is sought, and

(e) be accompanied by such information relating to the plantation or proposed plantation as is required by this Part or by the Minister.

(3) The Minister may require the applicant to provide further information in order to determine the application.

(4) Any such information or further information may relate to evidence of compliance with the requirements of any other law (including a law of the Commonwealth) or evidence that any lease or other tenure of the land concerned permits plantation operations of the kind to which the application relates.

(5) An applicant may, with the approval of the Minister, amend the application before it is determined.

(6) An application for authorisation may be made for the purpose of changing the class of an authorised plantation.