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NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 2002 - SECT 18

Parliamentary approval required for certain draft proclamations

(1)  A proclamation is not to be made under section 11(2) declaring permanent timber production zone land in existence immediately before the commencement of section 4(2) of the Forestry (Rebuilding the Forest Industry) Act 2014 to be of any class of reserved land unless a draft of the proclamation has been first approved by each House of Parliament.
(1A)  A proclamation is not to be made under section 11(2) declaring future potential production forest land to be of any class of reserved land unless a draft of the proclamation has been first approved by each House of Parliament.
(1B)  A proclamation is not to be made under section 11(2) or section 17(1) declaring land other than permanent timber production zone land that was in existence immediately before the commencement of section 4(2) of the Forestry (Rebuilding the Forest Industry) Act 2014 or future potential production forest land to be reserved land in the class of national park, State reserve, nature reserve or historic site unless a draft of the proclamation has been first approved by each House of Parliament.
(2)  A proclamation is not to be made under section 17(1) declaring any reserved land, or part of any reserved land, in the class of national park, State reserve, nature reserve, game reserve or historic site to be in any other class unless a draft of the proclamation has been first approved by each House of Parliament.
(3)  For the purposes of subsection (1B) , a House of Parliament is to be taken to have approved a draft of a proclamation if a copy of it has been laid on the table of the House and –
(a) it is approved by the House; or
(b) at the expiration of 5 sitting days after it was laid on the table of the House, no notice has been given of a motion to disallow it or, if such notice has been given, the notice has been withdrawn or the motion has been negatived; or
(c) if any notice of a motion to disallow it is given during that period of 5 sitting days, the notice is, after the expiration of that period, withdrawn or the motion is negatived.



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