Part 1 Fee for application for certification of forest practices plan

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Table A - Determination of prescribed fee

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| FPP ranking | Prescribed fee | | 0 | 52 fee units | | 1 | The higher of the following amounts: | | | (a) 52 fee units | | | (b) 6 fee units for each hectare (or part hectare) of land covered by the plan | | 2 | The higher of the following amounts: | | | (a) 77 fee units | | | (b) 16 fee units for each hectare (or part hectare) of land covered by the plan | | 3 | The higher of the following amounts: | | | (a) 129 fee units | | | (b) 25 fee units for each hectare (or part hectare) of land covered by the plan | | 4 | The higher of the following amounts: | | | (a) 513 fee units | | | (b) 30 fee units for each hectare (or part hectare) of land covered by the plan |

| In Table A – | | "FPP ranking" means a forest practices plan's ranking on a scale of complexity ranging from 0 to 4 (with 0 being the least complex and 4 being the most complex), as determined under Table B. |

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Table B - Determination of FPP ranking for Table A

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| | | Type (operational code) of FPP (as assessed by forest Practices officer) | | | | LIGHT SELECTIVE LOGGING OR LOW-LEVEL OPERATION | RETENTION SYSTEM | CLEARFELL SYSTEM | CONVERSION TO NON-FOREST | CONVERSION TO PLANTATION OR CLEARANCE & CONVERSION OF TNVC | ROAD, QUARRY | | | | (eg, collecting timber for firewood) | (eg, thinning operation leaving forest substantially intact) | (eg, felling all trees and allowing land to regenerate) | (eg, felling all trees and converting land to agricultural use) | (eg, converting native forest to pine plantation, or converting threatened native grassland to cropping) | (eg, constructing vehicular access to facilitate timber harvesting) | | Type of land covered by FPP | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 for an FPP involving the clearance & conversion of a TNVC | 3 | | | | | | | | 2 for another kind of FPP | | | | P | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | | | NF | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 |

| In Table B – | | "C" signifies treeless land or land containing scattered or degraded forest that the Authority has determined comprises – | | (a) trees that – | | (i) are mostly dead or show signs of severe dieback; and | | (ii) show no signs of healthy regeneration; or | | (b) trees that – | | (i) are mostly in poor health; and | | (ii) have an extensively disturbed or modified understorey dominated by introduced species of grass or other vegetation (such as broom, gorse or blackberry); and | | (iii) have a low potential to regenerate naturally or regain long-term health; or | | (c) mature trees that – | | (i) have, collectively, a canopy cover of less than 5% of the canopy cover that would be expected in a healthy forest; and | | (ii) occur only as solitary specimens, or in small stands of fewer than 10 trees, within a largely cleared landscape; or | | (d) native vegetation regrowth on previously cleared and converted land; | | "FPP" means forest practices plan; | | "NF" signifies a forest established by the natural or assisted regeneration of trees from seed or other natural propagules; | | "P" signifies a forest established by planting trees; | | "TNVC" means threatened native vegetation community. |