New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PLANTATIONS AND REAFFORESTATION ACT 1999 - SECT 17

17 Provisions relating to plantations already established

(1) This section applies to an application for authorisation under this Act in respect of which establishment operations have already been fully or partly carried out.

(2) The Minister may (without limiting this Part) refuse the application if the Minister determines that the establishment operations were not carried out in accordance with any applicable requirements of this Act, the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 , any law dealing with native vegetation conservation and any other relevant law.

(3) If any such application is granted, the Minister may grant the authorisation subject to any condition the Minister considers appropriate (including in connection with management or harvesting operations).

(4) Despite anything to the contrary in this Part:

(a) this section applies even though a plantation is a complying plantation, and

(b) this section does not apply to or in respect of a plantation that is required by section 17C to be authorised.