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South Australia
Native Vegetation (Road Verges) Amendment
Bill 2012
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Native
Vegetation Act 1991.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short
title
2Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Native Vegetation
Act 1991
3Amendment of section 27—Clearance of
native vegetation
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Native Vegetation (Road Verges) Amendment
Act 2012.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Native Vegetation
Act 1991
3—Amendment
of section 27—Clearance of native vegetation
(1) Section 27(1)—after paragraph (b) insert:
(c) native vegetation may be cleared without any other restriction under
this Act if the clearance occurs on a road verge and is reasonably
required—
(i) for road safety purposes; or
(ii) to reduce the fuel load on the road verge.
(2) Section 27—after subsection (6) insert:
(7) In this section—
road verge means the area of land adjacent to a public road
bounded by—
(a) the edge of the carriageway of the road; and
(b) —
(i) if the boundary of the property adjacent to the road is not more than
20 metres away from the carriageway of the road—that boundary;
or
(ii) in any other case—a line running parallel to the edge of the
carriageway of the road at a distance of 20 metres.