48Plantation operations not subject to certain provisions of National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 and Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016

48 Plantation operations not subject to certain provisions of National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 and Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016

48 Plantation operations not subject to certain provisions of National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 and Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016

(1) A person carrying out plantation operations on an authorised plantation is exempt from the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016, sections 2.1–2.4.

(2) Subsection (1) exempts the person only—

(a) if the operations are carried out in accordance with the conditions of authorisation and the provisions of the Code applying to the plantation, and

(b) in relation to things that are reasonably connected with the carrying out of the operations.

(3) The following orders must not be made to prevent or interfere with the carrying out of plantation operations on an authorised plantation—

(a) a stop work order or interim protection order within the meaning of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016, Part 11,

(b) a stop work order under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974, Part 6A, Division 1,

(c) an interim protection order within the meaning of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974.

(4) (Repealed)

Note—

See section 55 for continuation of power to make orders to protect relics or Aboriginal places within the meaning of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974.

s 48: Am 2023 No 7, Sch 1.16[9]–[11].