Local Land Services Act 2013

Clearing of native vegetation to obtain timber for the purpose of, and used in, the construction, operation or maintenance of rural infrastructure on the same landholding from which the native vegetation was cleared.

The clearing must not cause land degradation, including soil erosion, rising water tables, increase in salinity, mass movement by gravity of soil or rock, stream bank instability and any process that results in declining water quality.

The native vegetation must not comprise (or be likely to comprise)—

a threatened species or part of a threatened ecological community or the habitat of a threatened species under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016, or

the habitat of threatened species, populations or ecological communities of fish under the Fisheries Management Act 1994.

The clearing of native vegetation to obtain timber for use in the construction, operation or maintenance of rural infrastructure is not authorised if timber suitable for the purpose could be obtained from any other clearing that is authorised under this Schedule or by a land management (native vegetation) code or from forestry operations authorised by a private native forestry plan.

The clearing must not occur on land that is subject to a private native forestry plan and described as a riparian exclusion zone or riparian buffer zone in the private native forestry code of practice that applies to the private native forestry plan.