Local Land Services Act 2013

Clearing native vegetation for the purpose of environmental protection works.

Environmental protection works means works associated with the rehabilitation of land towards its natural state or any work to protect land from environmental degradation, and includes re-vegetation or bush regeneration works, wetland protection works, erosion protection works, dune restoration works and the like, but does not include coastal protection works (within the meaning of the Coastal Protection Act 1979).

This clause does not apply to land that is subject to a private native forestry plan.