Bill
Regional Forest Agreements Legislation (Repeal) Bill 2017
lapsed, as at 2022-07-25.
- Sponsor
- Janet Rice
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-09-07
- second reading — 2017-09-07
- second reading — 2018-02-08
- other — 2019-07-01
- other — 2019-07-04
- other — 2022-07-25
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2017-09-07.
This bill would repeal the Regional Forest Agreements Act 2002, which has allowed logging in native forests to bypass national environmental protections.
The repeal would bring forestry operations under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, requiring the same environmental approvals as other extractive industries.
Existing forestry operations under certain agreements would keep their current exemptions until the earlier of the agreement's initial period ending or its termination.
- Repeals the Regional Forest Agreements Act 2002.
- Applies the EPBC Act to forestry operations.
- Maintains existing EPBC exemptions for operations under certain agreements.
- Ends the Commonwealth's compensation liability under section 8 of the RFA Act.
- Applies export control laws to RFA wood.
Forestry operations and the timber industry in states with Regional Forest Agreements, including Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia, and New South Wales.
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