Farm Debt Mediation Act 1994
4ABFarming operation
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4AB Farming operation
4AB Farming operation
(1) A farming operation is a business undertaking that primarily involves one or more of the following activities:
(a) agriculture (for example, crop growing and livestock or grain farming),
(b) aquaculture,
(c) the cultivation or harvesting of timber or native vegetation,
(d) any activity involving primary production carried out in connection with an activity referred to in paragraphs (a)–(c).
(2) A farming operation does not include a business undertaking that primarily involves wild harvest fishing or the hunting or trapping of animals, birds or reptiles in the wild.
(3) The regulations may declare that any business undertaking of a specified kind is, or is not, a farming operation for the purposes of this Act.
s 4AB: Ins 2018 No 16, Sch 1 [5].