Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations[r. 5(1) item 23]
1 . Infrastructure maintenance activities
(1) The following
activities are infrastructure maintenance activities —
(a)
maintenance of existing infrastructure;
(b)
construction of infrastructure, if the construction commenced before
Part 9 of the Environmental Protection Amendment Act 2003 came into
operation;
(c) the
use of a site used to extract road or railway building materials if that site
was used within the 2 years immediately before the day on which
Part 9 of the Environmental Protection Amendment Act 2003 came into
operation;
(d) road
widening or realignment, or construction of a crossover from a road to private
property, and the construction or maintenance of sight line areas associated
with any of these, if the road existed before Part 9 of the Environmental
Protection Amendment Act 2003 came into operation.
(2) In this
clause —
sight line area means an area between the edge of
a stretch of road and a line of sight necessary for the safe use of the
stretch of road.
2 . How the activity is to be carried out
An activity referred
to in clause 1 is to be carried out so that any cleared vegetation or
debris —
(b) to
the extent to which it is not used on the site, is removed from the site
within 21 days of the clearing; and
(c) if
it is to be removed from the site —
(i)
is not placed in a heap or windrow on uncleared
vegetation; and
(ii)
is left in a heap or windrow (that is secured so that it
will not spread) until it is removed.
[Clause 2 amended in Gazette
24 Jun 2005 p. 2758.]