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PLANTATIONS AND REAFFORESTATION ACT 1999 - SECT 6
Exempt farm forestry
(1) For the purposes of this Act,
"exempt farm forestry" is the carrying out of plantation operations on a farm
that complies with each of the following: (a) the total area of the farm in
which plantation operations of any kind are carried out does not exceed 30
hectares at any one time,
(b) any clearing of native vegetation or of
protected land (within the meaning of the Native Vegetation Conservation Act
1997 ) is exempt from any requirement under Part 2 of that Act for development
consent,
(c) any harvesting of timber does not exceed the maximum amount of
harvesting permitted by the Code for exempt farm forestry.
(2) A
"farm" is an area of land (or contiguous areas of land) owned by the same
person or persons. However, the Code may make provision as to areas of land
that are or are not to be regarded as contiguous or that are or are not to be
regarded as owned by the same person or persons.
Note: Section 9 (2) provides
that exempt farm forestry may be authorised, but is not required to be
authorised, under this Act. Part 6 provides that exempt farm forestry is not
subject to the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 .
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