(a) [Section 33 Amended by No. 36 of 2006, s. 5, Applied:30 Apr 2007] has been approved subject to amendments, which have been agreed to by the applicant, made for the purpose of protecting a threatened species or protecting a threatened native vegetation community from clearance and conversion; or
authorised person means a person authorised by the Minister under section 45(1) ;
conservation compensation committee means a special advisory committee established by the Minister under section 9 for the purpose of assessing the amount of compensation that is to be paid to landowners under Division 4 ;
conservation covenant means –
(a) a conservation covenant entered into under this Part; and
(a) certify a forest practices plan subject to amendments made for the purpose of protecting a threatened species or maintaining a threatened native vegetation community; or
(b) refuse to certify a forest practices plan application wholly or partially on the ground that implementation of the proposed forest practices plan would threaten a threatened species or involve the clearance and conversion of a threatened native vegetation community;
landowner or owner of land means any one or more of the following:
(a) in the case of a fee simple estate in land, the person in whom that estate vested;
(b) in the case of land that is not registered under the Land Titles Act 1980 and is subject to a mortgage, the person having the equity of redemption in that mortgage, for the time being;
(c) in the case of land held under a tenancy for life, the person who is the life tenant;
(d) in the case of land held under a lease for a term of not less than 99 years or for a term of not less than any other prescribed period, the person who is the lessee of the land;
(e) in the case of land held under any other prescribed interest, the person who is the holder of the land under that interest;
servient land, in relation to a conservation covenant entered into between the Minister and a landowner, means the land of the landowner that is subject to the covenant;
taxon means a taxonomic group of any rank into which organisms are categorised;