Wet Tropics Management Plan 1998
sec.33Activities permitted in all zones
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sec.33 Activities permitted in all zones
A permit may be issued to a person to carry out any of the following activities on land in the wet tropics area— an activity the person was lawfully carrying out immediately before the 2020 amendment day; an activity the person has a native title right or interest to carry out; maintaining community services infrastructure, visitor infrastructure or another structure; maintaining a road, other than a road that is community services infrastructure; clearing vegetation around a structure or road to the extent necessary for its appropriate use, if the structure or road— existed immediately before 1 September 1998; or has been lawfully built under this plan; building limited visitor infrastructure; establishing a firebreak; an activity for protecting the life of, or preventing injury to, a person, other than an activity carried out in an emergency; clearing vegetation to make a space that can be used in the future as a landing place for a rescue helicopter in an emergency an activity for the protection, other than the urgent protection, of property; removing a decaying tree that may in the future pose a risk of damaging a nearby residence if it is not removed collecting seeds and other propagules; destroying a forest product to conserve or rehabilitate the area; A particular habitat requires management by fire to conserve native plants of a particular species in the habitat. A permit would be required to lop, dry and burn the plants to allow them to propagate in the habitat. destroying a forest product to improve the presentation of the area for visitors; lopping the regrowth of native plants that are obscuring the view from a lookout used by visitors to the area disposing of an undesirable plant; translocating a crustacean or fish, other than a fish of a species mentioned in schedule 2A , part 1 ; bringing a dog into the area for conserving or managing the area; bringing a working dog into the area to muster cattle so that the cattle can be removed from the area using a motorised aircraft, for commercial purposes, to— take-off from, or land in, the area; or fly at less than 1,000ft above the area, other than as reasonably necessary for safety purposes; reconfiguring a lot, if the reconfiguration is assessable development for which a local government is the assessment manager; operating a motor vehicle on a lawful access road for the land— to conserve, protect or rehabilitate land in the area; or to carry out scientific research; or to the extent reasonably necessary to carry out another permitted activity mentioned in this section. In this section— preventing injury , to a person, see section 27 (2) . s 33 sub 2020 SL No. 176 s 20 (sec.33-ssec.1) A permit may be issued to a person to carry out any of the following activities on land in the wet tropics area— an activity the person was lawfully carrying out immediately before the 2020 amendment day; an activity the person has a native title right or interest to carry out; maintaining community services infrastructure, visitor infrastructure or another structure; maintaining a road, other than a road that is community services infrastructure; clearing vegetation around a structure or road to the extent necessary for its appropriate use, if the structure or road— existed immediately before 1 September 1998; or has been lawfully built under this plan; building limited visitor infrastructure; establishing a firebreak; an activity for protecting the life of, or preventing injury to, a person, other than an activity carried out in an emergency; clearing vegetation to make a space that can be used in the future as a landing place for a rescue helicopter in an emergency an activity for the protection, other than the urgent protection, of property; removing a decaying tree that may in the future pose a risk of damaging a nearby residence if it is not removed collecting seeds and other propagules; destroying a forest product to conserve or rehabilitate the area; A particular habitat requires management by fire to conserve native plants of a particular species in the habitat. A permit would be required to lop, dry and burn the plants to allow them to propagate in the habitat. destroying a forest product to improve the presentation of the area for visitors; lopping the regrowth of native plants that are obscuring the view from a lookout used by visitors to the area disposing of an undesirable plant; translocating a crustacean or fish, other than a fish of a species mentioned in schedule 2A , part 1 ; bringing a dog into the area for conserving or managing the area; bringing a working dog into the area to muster cattle so that the cattle can be removed from the area using a motorised aircraft, for commercial purposes, to— take-off from, or land in, the area; or fly at less than 1,000ft above the area, other than as reasonably necessary for safety purposes; reconfiguring a lot, if the reconfiguration is assessable development for which a local government is the assessment manager; operating a motor vehicle on a lawful access road for the land— to conserve, protect or rehabilitate land in the area; or to carry out scientific research; or to the extent reasonably necessary to carry out another permitted activity mentioned in this section. (sec.33-ssec.2) In this section— preventing injury , to a person, see section 27 (2) .