New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

NATIVE VEGETATION REGULATION 2005 - REG 31

31 Identification of protected regrowth on steep or highly erodible land or protected riparian land

(1) The Minister may prepare a natural resource management plan for the purposes of:

(a) identifying land as "steep or highly erodible land", "protected riparian land" or "special category land" for the purposes of this Part, and

(b) identifying as protected regrowth for the purposes of section 10 of the Act all native vegetation on land identified by the plan as steep or highly erodible land or protected riparian land.

(2) A natural resource management plan prepared by the Minister under this clause is prescribed for the purposes of section 10 (1) (c) of the Act.

Note: Section 10 (1) (c) provides for the identification of protected vegetation by a natural resource management plan prescribed by the regulations.

(3) All regrowth on State protected land (other than State protected land that is identified as “Category C” protected land on any map held by the Director-General) is identified as protected regrowth for the purposes of section 10 of the Act until:

(a) the Minister prepares a natural resource management plan under subclause (1), or

(b) the end of the period of 6 months after the commencement of this Regulation,

whichever happens first.