New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PLANTATIONS AND REAFFORESTATION ACT 1999 - SECT 27

27 Content of Code

(1) The Code may, for the purpose of furthering the objects of this Act:

(a) specify standards with respect to establishment operations for complying plantations, and

(b) specify guidelines with respect to establishment operations for the purpose of the assessment of applications for the authorisation of plantations that are not complying plantations, and

(c) make integrated provision with respect to plantation operations for matters that would otherwise be regulated by the separate regulatory provisions replaced by Part 6, and

(d) regulate the replanting of trees or shrubs on authorised timber plantations that have been harvested (including prescribing replantings that are covered by the authorisation), and

(e) generally regulate the carrying out of plantation operations on authorised plantations, and

(f) prescribe the matters otherwise authorised or permitted by this Act to be prescribed by the Code.

(2) The Code may (without limiting this section) deal with the following matters:

(a) The conservation and management of native vegetation in accordance with the objects of the Native Vegetation Act 2003 .

(b) The prevention of soil erosion and the control of sediment in rivers and other waters.

(c) The protection of rivers and lakes (including preventing operations that obstruct or detrimentally affect the flow of waters).

(d) The conservation of native animals and plants, and their habitat.

(e) The conservation of fish and marine vegetation, and their habitat (including the provision of fishways in connection with dams, weirs and reservoirs, and the protection of the spawning areas of salmon and trout).

(f) The conservation of threatened species, populations and ecological communities, and their habitats, within the meaning of the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 and of Part 7A of the Fisheries Management Act 1994 , and critical habitats within the meaning of that Act or that Part.

(g) The protection of Aboriginal relics and places.

(h) Plantation operations on Crown roads.

(i) Bush fire hazard reduction and the construction and maintenance of fire trails.

(j) The control of plant diseases in plantations.

(k) Harvesting plans for plantations.

(l) The carrying out of works ancillary to harvesting operations on plantations.