New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL FIRES ACT 1997 - SECT 100J

100J Commissioner may prepare draft codes

(1) The Minister may cause to be prepared by the Commissioner for submission to the Minister a draft bush fire environmental assessment code in relation to land (other than excluded land).

(2) A draft bush fire environmental assessment code may refer to, or incorporate with or without modification, a document prepared or published by a body specified in the code, as in force at a particular time or from time to time.

(3) In preparing a draft bush fire environmental assessment code in relation to land, the Commissioner must have regard to--

(a) the principles of ecologically sustainable development (as described by section 6 (2) of the Protection of the Environment Administration Act 1991 ), and

(b) any matter likely to affect the environment by reason of the carrying out of bush fire hazard reduction works on the land that a determining authority would be required to consider under section 5.5 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (but for this Division) if Part 5 of that Act were applicable to the work and the carrying out of the works were an activity within the meaning of that Part.