Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Savanna Fire Management—Sequestration and Emissions Avoidance) Methodology Determination 2018
7Meaning of fire season, early dry season and late dry season
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7 Meaning of fire season, early dry season and late dry season
(1) For this determination, the fire seasons are the early dry season and the late dry season.
Note: Each year in northern Australia, there is also a wet season, which occurs approximately from November to April. For the purposes of this determination, the definitions of the early and late dry seasons overlap with the wet season, as fire generally does not occur during the wet season.
(2) In this determination:
early dry season, for a particular area of land and for a particular calendar year, means the period of the calendar year that is not the late dry season for that area and that year.
late dry season, for a particular area of land and for a particular calendar year, means the period that:
(a) begins on the date of that year indicated for that area in the applicable Savanna Fire Management LDS Start Date spatial data layer; and
(b) ends on the date for that year (which may be in that year or in the following year) indicated for that area of land in the applicable Savanna Fire Management LDS End Date spatial data layer.
(3) For this section, a spatial data layer is applicable in relation to a particular calendar year if it is:
(a) if a later version of the spatial data layer is published before 1 July of the previous calendar year—the latest version so published; and
(b) otherwise—the version that was published when this determination commenced.