South Australian Numbered Regulations

NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (GENERAL) VARIATION REGULATIONS 2015 (NO 13 OF 2015) - REG 4

4—Insertion of regulation 20A

Before regulation 21 insert:

20A—Interpretation—harvesting (section 169A of Act)

        (1)         For the purposes of section 169A(2) of the Act, a reference to harvesting does not include the following activities:

            (a)         forest thinning;

            (b)         salvage operations following instances of pest incursion, wind-throw, fire or other such harmful or damaging events to forest vegetation;

            (c)         an activity specified in the water allocation plan relating to the declared forestry area as an activity that does not constitute harvesting.

        (2)         In this regulation—

"forest thinning" means the selective removal of a proportion of the trees from a commercial forest, primarily undertaken to improve the growth rate or health of the remaining trees in the forest, but does not include clear-felling.