Section 3(1) of the Principal Act is amended as follows:

(a) by inserting the following definition after the definition of division :

exceptional circumstances , that may justify the clearance and conversion of a threatened native vegetation community, include the need to do one or more of the following:

(a) ensure the physical safety of an owner of land or the owner's relatives or employees;

(b) remove or reduce a bushfire risk;

(c) respond to a threat to the State's biosecurity;

(d) protect a rare, vulnerable or endangered species of flora or fauna;

(e) discharge a statutory obligation or comply with an order of a court;

(b) by omitting the definition of forest practices and substituting the following definition:

forest practices means –

(a) the processes involved in establishing forests, growing or harvesting timber, clearing trees or clearing and converting threatened native vegetation communities; and

(b) works (including the construction of roads and the development and operation of quarries) connected with establishing forests, growing or harvesting timber or clearing trees;

(c) by inserting the following definition after the definition of harvest :

native vegetation means vegetation of a species that existed in Tasmania, on land, before European settlement;

(d) by inserting the following definition after the definition of the regulations :

threatened native vegetation community has the same meaning as in the Nature Conservation Act 2002 ;