Vegetation Management Act 1999

Until a database takes effect as the VM REDD under this Act, the former provisions apply as if the Land and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2023, part 11 had not been enacted.

Subsection (3) applies if—

a database certified under section 22J stops having effect as the VM REDD under this Act; and

there is no database that was the VM REDD before the certification.

The former provisions apply, as if the Land and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2023, part 11 had not been enacted, until another database takes effect as the VM REDD under this Act.

In this section—former provisions means the following provisions as in force immediately before the commencement—

section 8(b);

sections 22LA, 22LB and 22LC;

schedule, definitions encroachment, grassland regional ecosystem and regional ecosystem number;

a provision of a regulation made under a provision mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c).