Strategic environmental area
11 Strategic environmental area
A strategic environmental area is an area that—
contains 1 or more environmental attributes for the area; and
is either—
shown on a map in a regional plan as a strategic environmental area; or
prescribed under a regulation.
Examples of areas that may be shown or prescribed as strategic environmental areas—
• the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve on Cape York Peninsula
• the channel country of western Queensland
In this section—
environmental attribute, for an area, means an attribute of the environment identified as an environmental attribute for the area under a regional plan or regulation.
This provision refers to the regulations (a regulation
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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