New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PLANTATIONS AND REAFFORESTATION ACT 1999 - SECT 8

8 Purposes of authorisation

The purposes of the authorisation of plantations under this Act are:

(a) to provide a streamlined and integrated process for obtaining approval to establish timber and other forest plantations, and

(b) to guarantee harvesting operations on timber plantations, and

(c) to apply codified environmental standards to establishment, management and harvesting operations on plantations.

Note: See Part 6 which provides that authorised plantations are not subject to the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 and certain other Acts.