Regional Planning Interests Act 2014

The mitigation criteria are that mitigation measures (under a mitigation deed or under a payment from the mitigation fund) must—

aim to increase the productivity of cropping in the State; and

provide a public, rather than a private, benefit; and

aim to provide an enduring effect; and

be quantifiable and able to be independently valued; and

benefit the largest possible number of cropping agribusinesses; and

if a cropping activity or cropping system existed for mitigated SCL land to which the measures relate—provide a benefit to that type of activity or system in the relevant local area.

In deciding what is a relevant local area for subsection (1)(f), regard must be had to catchments and local government areas.