New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PLANTATIONS AND REAFFORESTATION ACT 1999 - SECT 13

13 Provisions relating to complying plantations

(1) For the purposes of this Act, a "complying plantation" is a plantation:

(a) whose establishment complies with the relevant complying development standards of the Code, and

(b) that is not a plantation in respect of which a species impact statement is required to be provided by this Part.

(2) The applicant for authorisation of a complying plantation is required to provide the Minister with a statement that demonstrates compliance or proposed compliance with all the relevant complying development standards of the Code.

(3) The Minister is required to grant the application if the Minister determines that it is a complying plantation. The authorisation is to be identified as an authorisation for a complying plantation.

(4) It is a condition of any such authorisation that establishment operations comply with the relevant development standards of the Code.

(5) However, the Minister may decide to deal with an application for authorisation of a complying plantation under section 14 because of any special circumstance that requires consideration under that section.

(6) An authorised plantation does not require further authorisation under this Act merely because it ceases to be a complying plantation as a result of any change to the complying development standards of the Code.