FOREST PRACTICES REGULATIONS 2017 (S.R. 2017, NO. 21) - SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 1 - Fees

PART 1 - Fee for application for certification of forest practices plan

Table A - Determination of prescribed fee

FPP ranking	Prescribed fee
0	52 fee units
1	The higher of the following amounts:
	(a) 52 fee units
	(b) 6 fee units for each hectare (or part hectare) of land covered by the plan
2	The higher of the following amounts:
	(a) 77 fee units
	(b) 16 fee units for each hectare (or part hectare) of land covered by the plan
3	The higher of the following amounts:
	(a) 129 fee units
	(b) 25 fee units for each hectare (or part hectare) of land covered by the plan
4	The higher of the following amounts:
	(a) 513 fee units
	(b) 30 fee units for each hectare (or part hectare) of land covered by the plan

In Table A –

" FPP ranking " means a forest practices plan's ranking on a scale of complexity ranging from 0 to 4 (with 0 being the least complex and 4 being the most complex), as determined under Table B.

Table B - Determination of FPP ranking for Table A

		Type (operational code) of FPP (as assessed by forest Practices officer)
		LIGHT SELECTIVE LOGGING OR LOW-LEVEL OPERATION	RETENTION SYSTEM	CLEARFELL SYSTEM	CONVERSION TO NON-FOREST	CONVERSION TO PLANTATION OR CLEARANCE & CONVERSION OF TNVC	ROAD, QUARRY
		(eg, collecting timber for firewood)	(eg, thinning operation leaving forest substantially intact)	(eg, felling all trees and allowing land to regenerate)	(eg, felling all trees and converting land to agricultural use)	(eg, converting native forest to pine plantation, or converting threatened native grassland to cropping)	(eg, constructing vehicular access to facilitate timber harvesting)
Type of land covered by FPP	C	0	0	0	0	4 for an FPP involving the clearance & conversion of a TNVC	3
						2 for another kind of FPP
	P	1	1	2	2	2	3
	NF	1	2	3	4	4	3

In Table B –

" C " signifies treeless land or land containing scattered or degraded forest that the Authority has determined comprises –

(a) trees that –

(i) are mostly dead or show signs of severe dieback; and

(ii) show no signs of healthy regeneration; or

(b) trees that –

(i) are mostly in poor health; and

(ii) have an extensively disturbed or modified understorey dominated by introduced species of grass or other vegetation (such as broom, gorse or blackberry); and

(iii) have a low potential to regenerate naturally or regain long-term health; or

(i) have, collectively, a canopy cover of less than 5% of the canopy cover that would be expected in a healthy forest; and

(ii) occur only as solitary specimens, or in small stands of fewer than 10 trees, within a largely cleared landscape; or

(d) native vegetation regrowth on previously cleared and converted land;

" FPP " means forest practices plan;

" NF " signifies a forest established by the natural or assisted regeneration of trees from seed or other natural propagules;

" P " signifies a forest established by planting trees;

" TNVC " means threatened native vegetation community.

PART 2 - Other fees

1.	Application under section 5(2)(d) of the Act to have land declared as private timber reserve	350 fee units
2.	Issue of tree fern tag under section 18A(b) of the Act –
	(a) for tree fern stem greater than 30cm in length	1 fee unit
	(b) for tree fern stem 30cm or less in length	0.5 fee unit

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953 .

Notified in the Gazette on 19 April 2017

These regulations are administered by the Forest Practices Authority.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the regulation)

These regulations –

(a) prescribe the circumstances in which forest practices may be carried out without a forest practices plan; and
(b) prescribe the fees payable under the Forest Practices Act 1985 ; and
(c) are made consequentially on the repeal of the Forest Practices Regulations 2007 under section 11 of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1992 .

Tasmanian Numbered Regulations

FOREST PRACTICES REGULATIONS 2017 (S.R. 2017, NO. 21) - SCHEDULE 1