(1) A clearing permit
may be granted subject to such conditions as the CEO considers to be necessary
or convenient for the purposes of preventing, controlling, abating or
mitigating environmental harm or directly or indirectly offsetting the loss of
the cleared vegetation.
(2) Section 51I sets
out some kinds of conditions that may be attached to a clearing permit and
further kinds of conditions may be prescribed, but nothing in that section or
the regulations prevents other conditions from being attached.
(3) The CEO is not to
attach —
(a) a
condition that would, in the CEO’s opinion, be seriously at variance
with the clearing principles except to the extent necessary to give effect to
a decision made under section 51O(3); or
(b)
subject to section 51P, a condition that would be inconsistent with an
approved policy.
[Section 51H inserted: No. 54 of 2003 s. 110(1);
amended: No. 40 of 2020 s. 47.]