3AMeaning of "clearance and conversion"

3A Meaning of "clearance and conversion"

[Section 3A Inserted by No. 35 of 2006, s. 5, Applied:30 Apr 2007]

(1)  In this Act –

clearance and conversion, of a threatened native vegetation community, means the deliberate process of removing all or most of the threatened native vegetation community from an area of land and –

(a) leaving the area of land, on a permanent or extended basis, in an unvegetated state; or

(b) replacing the threatened native vegetation so removed, on a permanent or extended basis, with any, or any combination of, the following:

(i) another community of native vegetation;

(ii) non-native vegetation;

(iii) agricultural works;

(iv) residential, commercial or other non-agricultural development; or

(c) doing a combination of any of the things referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) .

(2)  To avoid doubt, a management practice does not constitute the clearance and conversion of a threatened native vegetation community from any land unless the management practice is carried out to deliberately remove, or carried out as part of a process to deliberately remove, all or most of the threatened native vegetation community from the land on a permanent or extended basis.

(3)  In this section –

agricultural works includes, but is not limited to, the following:

(a) farm sheds and workshops;

(b) farm dams and irrigation facilities;

(c) farm storage and processing facilities;

(d) farm access roads and easements;

(e) farm fencing;

means any of the following: