Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00047:clause:2_3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00047
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 3
Character Range: 113592–115059

3  Eligible land for conversion project activity
Note: See section 12.
  For this determination, an area of land in the project area is eligible land appropriate for the conversion project activity if, on the eligibility date:
 (a) the land was not part of the project area of an eligible offsets project; and
 (b)  either:
 (i) the land was within a national plantation inventory region; or
 (ii) no part of the land was further than 100km from the nearest national plantation inventory region; and
 (c) if a rotation of a plantation forest was underway on the land:
 (i) the rotation was a short rotation; and
 (ii) the plantation forest had not been thinned or pruned during the rotation, other than where subclause 5(1) or (2) applies; and
 (iii) if the species was a UR species for the land, the requirements in clause 6 are met; and
 (d) if no rotation of a plantation forest was underway on the land:
 (i) in the 7 years prior to the eligibility date, a rotation of a plantation forest had been completed on the land; and
 (ii) that rotation was a short rotation; and
 (e) during the 7 years prior to the eligibility date, the land had not been used other than:
 (i) as a plantation forest with a short rotation; or
 (ii) as land with no plantation forest; and
 (f) the following applied:
 (i) the land had not, within the previous seven years, been cleared of native forest; and
 (ii) native forest would not need to be cleared for a project to be conducted.