NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1992 - SECT 66 Offset condition for protected area authority

NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1992 - SECT 66

66 Offset condition for protected area authority

(1) A condition of a protected area authority may require or otherwise relate to an environmental offset (an
"offset condition" ).

Note—

The Environmental Offsets Act 2014 , part 6 , states further conditions that apply to a protected area authority and those further conditions are called deemed conditions. A breach of a deemed condition may be dealt with under this Act.

(2) An offset condition may require an environmental offset to be undertaken on land to which a protected area authority applies or on other land in the State.

(3) If an applicant for a protected area authority has entered into an agreement about an environmental offset, an offset condition may require the applicant to comply with the agreement.

(4) An agreement entered into under subsection (3) is not an environmental offset agreement under the Environmental Offsets Act 2014 .

(5) In this section—


"environmental offset" see the Environmental Offsets Act 2014 , schedule 2 .


"protected area authority" means a lease, agreement, licence, permit or other authority under this Act (including under a regulation) over, or in relation to, land in a protected area.