Key Documents
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This fact sheet provides information on when a Country Areas Water Supply Act 1947 (CAWS Act) licence from the Department of Water is required to undertake the clearing of native vegetation.
- Key Document Category: Fact sheet
- DER function: Clearing Permits
- Current version: August 2015
Clearing in controlled catchments
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This fact sheet provides information on clearing permit applications under the Environmental Protection Act 1986 (EP Act) for mining and petroleum activities.
- Key Document Category: Fact sheet
- DER function: Clearing Permits
- Current version: August 2015
Mining and petroleum activities
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This fact sheet provides information about clearing permits granted under the Environmental Protection Act 1986 (EP Act).
- Key Document Category: Fact sheet
- DER function: Clearing Permits
- Current version: August 2015
Complying with your permit to clear native vegetation
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This fact sheet provides information on native vegetation clearing legislation in Western Australia (WA).
- Key Document Category: Fact sheet
- DER function: Clearing Permits
- Current version: February 2015
Native vegetation clearing legislation in Western Australia
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This procedure is provided to assist applicants in the design of an offset proposal
where required as a condition of a clearing permit under Part V Division 2 of the
Environmental Protection Act 1986 (EP Act). - Key Document Category: Guideline
- DER function: Clearing Permits
- Current version: August 2014
Clearing of native vegetation offsets procedure
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This guideline provides information on the Department of Environment Regulation (DER)’s approach, and that of the Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) under delegation, to assessing and making decisions on native vegetation clearing applications under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) assessment bilateral agreement.
- Key Document Category: Guideline
- DER function: Clearing Permits
- Current version: December 2014
A guide to native vegetation clearing processes under the assessment bilateral agreement
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This guide sets out the exemptions for clearing of native vegetation to maintain existing transport corridors.
- Key Document Category: Guideline
- DER function: Clearing Permits
- Current version: August 2015
A guide to the exemption for clearing native vegetation for maintenance in existing transport corridors
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This guide briefly summarises fire ecology and management issues in Western Australia relevant to the native vegetation clearing provisions of the Environmental Protection Act 1986 (EP Act).
- Key Document Category: Guideline
- DER function: Clearing Permits
- Current version: August 2015
A guide to burning under the native vegetation clearing provisions
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This guide sets out the Department of Environment Regulation’s (DER) approach for assessing an application to clear native vegetation under the Environmental Protection Act 1986 (EP Act).
- Key Document Category: Guideline
- DER function: Clearing Permits
- Current version: December 2014
A guide to the assessment of applications to clear native vegetation
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This guideline sets out the requirements of the Environmental Protection Act 1986 (EP Act) in relation to the grazing of native vegetation, including when grazing of native vegetation is clearing for the purposes of the Act. This guideline applies to all grazing of native vegetation on lands in Western Australia.
- Key Document Category: Guideline
- DER function: Clearing Permits
- Current version: September 2015