New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

NATIVE VEGETATION REGULATION 2005 - REG 3

3 Definitions

(1) In this Regulation:
"council" means a council, or a county council, within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1993 .
"development consent" means development consent required by the Act for the clearing of native vegetation.
"former Act" means the Native Vegetation Conservation Act 1997 .
"managed area" means an area of land set aside by a council for the purposes of protecting native vegetation in connection with a routine agricultural management activity as referred to in clause 18A.
"new Act" or "the Act" means the Native Vegetation Act 2003 .
"NRC" means the Natural Resources Commission under the Natural Resources Commission Act 2003 .
"offset" means any natural resource management action or work required by a PVP for the purpose of ensuring that broadscale clearing proposed by the PVP improves or maintains environmental outcomes.
"private native forestry" means the management of native vegetation on privately owned land for the purpose of obtaining, on a sustainable basis, timber products (including sawlogs, veneer logs, poles, girders, piles and pulp logs).
"private native forestry PVP" means a PVP that provides for the clearing of native vegetation as part of private native forestry.
"PVP" means a property vegetation plan.
"State protected land" means State protected land within the meaning of the former Act, immediately before its repeal.
"western coastal region" means land in the area of operations of the Northern Rivers, Hunter-Central Rivers, Hawkesbury-Nepean or Southern Rivers Catchment Management Authority that is within the local government area of Kyogle, Tenterfield, Clarence Valley (to the west of Summerland Way and Orara Way), Glen Innes-Severn, Guyra, Armidale Dumaresq, Walcha, Tamworth Regional, Uralla, Warrumbungle, Liverpool Plains, Gloucester, Upper Hunter, Mid-Western Regional, City of Lithgow, Dungog, Muswellbrook, Singleton, Cessnock, Blue Mountains, Oberon, Wollondilly, Wingecarribee, Upper Lachlan, Goulburn-Mulwaree, Palerang, Cooma-Monaro, Snowy River or Bombala.
"Western Division" has the same meaning as in the Crown Lands Act 1989 .

(2) Notes included in this Regulation do not form part of this Regulation.