New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

WESTERN LANDS REGULATION 1997 - SCHEDULE 4

SCHEDULE 4 – Exemptions from requirement to obtain clearing licence

(Clause 29)

(1)

Clear land not more than 20 metres either side of the line of an existing or a proposed fence, being a fence which is or is to be of a permanent nature.

(2)

Clear land not more than 30 metres wide for any of the following purposes:

(a) an access trail,

(b) a cut-line for stock movement,

(c) a firebreak,

(d) a road,

(e) a telephone line or cable,

(f) a power line or cable,

(g) a drain to a water storage,

(h) a bore drain,

(i) a pipeline,

(j) an irrigation channel.

(3)

Clear land not more than 100 metres wide for a firebreak where mallee species predominate.

(4)

Clear an area of land sufficient to meet civil aviation standards for the purpose of constructing an airstrip.

(5)

Clear land, not more than 5 hectares in area for the construction of a house, shearing shed, machinery shed, ground tank, dam, stock yard or similar utility, subject to the construction being permitted under the Act or any relevant Western Lands lease or any licence.

(6)

Clear land of seedlings and regrowth where the land was cleared or cultivated during the preceding 20 years under the provisions of the Act or the Forestry Act 1916 , except where the tree cover predominantly comprises one or more of the following species:

Eucalyptus camaldulensis (river red gum)

Casuarina cristata (belah)

Casuarina pauper (belah)

Callitris glaucophylla (white cypress pine).

(7)

Clear land of trees which are less than 3 metres high where one or more of the following species predominates:

Eucalyptus largiflorens (black box)

Eucalyptus camaldulensis (river red gum)

Eucalyptus populnea (bimble box)

Eucalyptus coolabah (coolibah)

Callitris glaucophylla (white cypress pine)

Casuarina cristata (belah)

Casuarina pauper (belah).

(8)

Clear land where the predominant species are “woody weeds” which, for the purpose of this paragraph, are:

Eremophila sturtii (turpentine)

Eremophila mitchellii (budda, false sandalwood)

Dodonaea viscosa subsp. spatulata (broadleaf hopbush)

Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima (narrowleaf hopbush)

Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia (punty bush)

Senna artemisioides nothosubsp. artemisioides (silver cassia).

(9)

Lop trees to provide stockfeed in times of drought where the method and extent of the lopping ensures the continued survival and health of the trees.

(10)

Selectively push mulga trees in dense mulga stands for stock feeding purposes subject to the following conditions:

(a) the retention of mulga trees at spacings of no more than 20 metres,

(b) in selecting trees for retention priority is given to trees with a trunk diameter exceeding 12 centimetres.

(11)

Clear land (by the use of fire) where mallee trees are the predominant species for the purpose of promoting the growth of pasture species or reducing hazardous or potentially hazardous fuel build-up, but not so as to result in the significant killing of the below-ground parts of the predominant species or the significant destruction of other trees.

(12)

Clear land where the predominant species is one of the following:

Prosopis (mesquite)

Lycium ferocissimum (African boxthorn).

(13)

Clear land in connection with rabbit ripping (being undertaken as part of a planned rabbit control program on land that is not protected land within the meaning of section 21AB of the Soil Conservation Act 1938 ), but only if the clearing is limited to trees which must be removed in order to destroy a rabbit warren.

(14)

Kill or otherwise destroy trees of the following species:

Tamarix aphylla (athol pine)

Ailanthus altissima (tree of heaven)

Schinus ariera (peppercorn)

Acacia nilotica (prickly acacia).