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RURAL FIRES ACT 1997 - SECT 100P

Definitions

100P Definitions

In this Division--

"10/50 Vegetation Clearing Code of Practice" means a code of practice under section 100Q, as in force from time to time, relating to the clearing of vegetation on land situated in a 10/50 vegetation clearing entitlement area.

"10/50 vegetation clearing entitlement area" means land determined by the Commissioner to be a 10/50 vegetation clearing entitlement area and identified on a map published on the NSW Rural Fire Service website.

"high-risk facility" means a child care centre, school or hospital within the meaning of the Standard Instrument.

"farm shed" means a building that--

(a) is erected on land that is in one of the following land use zones (or in the case of land that is zoned under an environmental planning instrument other than an instrument made in the form of a Standard Instrument--a land use zone that, having regard to the objectives of the zone, has the substantial character of any of the following land use zones)--
(i) RU1 Primary Production,
(ii) RU2 Rural Landscape,
(iii) RU4 Primary Production Small Lots, and
(b) has a floor area of more than 50 square metres, and
(c) is used by a primary producer wholly or substantially for a purpose associated with carrying on one or more of the following primary production businesses--
(i) the cultivation or propagation of plants or fungi, or their products (including seeds, spores, fruits, grain, flowers, vegetables, tobacco, bulbs and oils), but not a plant nursery,
(ii) bee keeping or aquaculture (within the meaning of the Fisheries Management Act 1994 ),
(iii) the rearing or grazing of livestock, including horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, goats or poultry or other birds, for the purpose of selling the livestock or products derived from the livestock, and
(d) if it is used for processing products--is used for processing products a majority of which are produced on the property on which the building is erected, and
(e) is not a moveable building.

"residential accommodation" means--
(a) residential accommodation within the meaning of the Standard Instrument, and
(b) tourist and visitor accommodation within the meaning of the Standard Instrument, and
(c) caravans installed in caravan parks within the meaning of the Standard Instrument, and
(d) manufactured homes installed in manufactured home estates within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1993 .

"Rural Boundary Clearing Code" --see section 100RA.

"rural zone" means each of the following land use zones under the Standard Instrument, or a zone under another instrument that is equivalent to 1 of the following zones--
(a) Zone RU1 Primary Production,
(b) Zone RU2 Rural Landscape,
(c) Zone RU3 Forestry,
(d) Zone RU4 Primary Production Small Lots,
(e) Zone RU5 Village,
(f) Zone RU6 Transition.

"Standard Instrument" means the standard local environmental planning instrument prescribed by the Standard Instrument (Local Environmental Plans) Order 2006 .

"tree" means a perennial woody plant that is 3 or more metres in height and that has one or more self-supporting trunks (at least one of which has a circumference at a height of 1.3 metres above the ground of more than 0.3 metres), but does not include a woody plant that is--
(a) a shrub, which is a small, low growing, woody plant with multiple stems, or
(b) a vine, which is a woody plant that depends on an erect substrate to grow on.



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