Being president of NAPFA I am sure Stephen is very busy fighting for our rights here in NSW. They have had a few wins recently with 4 new fossicking districts being declared.
from the news letter:
"Excellent progress on new Fossicking Districts
Four new NSW Fossicking Districts were declared on 28 April 2017.
The new districts cover the Local Government Areas of: Bega, Eurobodalla,
Bland and Tumut. The Tumut area is the Tumut section of the new Snowy
Valleys Shire, which means the whole of that new Shire (includes the former
Cootamundra LGA) is now a Fossicking District.
Ten new Fossicking Districts have been declared since NAPFA launched this
campaign in 2015, more than doubling the LGAs in NSW covered by Fossicking
Districts. These 10 LGAs are the first new Fossicking Districts declared since
2001.
There are now 18 complete LGAs across NSW that are fossicking districts. This
is in addition to 45 small areas that are covered by Fossicking District rules.
This covers almost 9 million hectares – or 11 per cent of the state.
This demonstrates what NAPFA is doing for you.
The full list of new ones is:
Bathurst
Bega
Bland
Cootamundra
Eurobodalla
Guyra
Narrabri
Upper Lachlan
Tumut
Walcha
We want to have as much of the state as possible covered by Fossicking District
regulations – which effectively cuts some Red Tape for fossickers by removing
the need to get permission from Exploration Lease holders to fossick on
ground covered by those ELs. If you are fossicking in those areas please tell
everyone you’re there because it is a Fossicking District."
More can be found in the news letters:
www.napfa.net/NAPFA-News.html