Stock Route Management Act 2002

The issuing entity must consider and decide whether to grant or refuse the application.

The issuing entity may grant the application only if—

if the issuing entity has a stock route network management plan—the use of the land for agistment is consistent with the plan; and

the issuing entity is satisfied—

the applicant has not held a stock route agistment permit for the land in the 3 months immediately before the date of the application; and

there is more pasture and water available on the land than is needed for the use of travelling stock; and

the land is not subject to a lease or permit under the Land Act; and

the stock’s agistment is not likely to—

introduce invasive biosecurity matter onto land in the entity’s area; or

spread invasive biosecurity matter on the land; or

degrade the land; or

adversely affect road safety; and

the stock to be agisted are not affected by prohibited matter or category 1 or 2 restricted matter under the Biosecurity Act 2014.

Also, if the land is a State-controlled road, the issuing entity may grant the application only if the use of the land for agistment is approved, with or without conditions, by the chief executive of the department responsible for managing State-controlled roads.

A condition of an approval mentioned in subsection (3) may only be about—

protecting road transport infrastructure under the Transport Infrastructure Act 1994; or

road safety.

In this section—invasive biosecurity matter means prohibited matter or restricted matter that is prescribed or declared as invasive biosecurity matter under the Biosecurity Act 2014.