Avoid, minimise and offset hierarchy
6.3A Avoid, minimise and offset hierarchy
For the purposes of the biodiversity offsets scheme, the avoid, minimise and offset hierarchy is the principle that avoiding, minimising and offsetting the impacts of actions on biodiversity values be approached as follows—
the proponent of the action first takes all reasonable measures to avoid the impacts of the action on biodiversity values,
after taking all reasonable measures under paragraph (a), the proponent then takes all reasonable measures to minimise the impacts that have not been avoided,
having taken the measures under paragraph (b), the proponent then takes biodiversity conservation measures under the biodiversity offsets scheme to offset or compensate for any residual impact on biodiversity values.
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