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Annual Land and S t ock Returns
help us secure the future of agriculture for NSW.
Lodging online is quick and easy!
If you’ve never lodged your Annual Land and Stock Return
online, now’s a good time to start!
From 30 June, our dedicated Annual Land and Stock Return
portal will be open and we encourage you to lodge your
return online.
Lodging online helps:
• reduce contact with paper forms
• saves on post or a trip to the office
• build your digital confidence
• ensure your form is received by the 31 August deadline.
The online return asks the same questions as the paper
form and only takes a couple of minutes.
Here’s how you do it:
1. Look up your holding reference number and unique
online password in the top right hand corner of the
paper form enclosed with this newsletter
2. Visit our website at www.lls.nsw.gov.au/alsr It will look
something like this
3. Login and fill in your land and stock details as at
30 June. If you are having difficulty lodging your
return, please call us on 1300 795 299.
Online not for you?
That’s okay, here’s how you can mail it back.
You can post your completed return to:
Local Land Services
Locked Bag 6013
Orange NSW 2800
Connect
with us
Connecting with us has never been easier!
In response to COVID-19, we’ve been doing things a little differently at Local Land Services.
To allow you to stay connected with your local team from the comfort of your own home, we have moved to a
more digital-focused service delivery. This will make working with us that little bit easier!
Don’t worry, your local team is still on the ground, when it matters, working with you to help grow and protect
NSW communities.
The easiest way to stay in touch with us at the moment is through our new website. The new site allows you to stay
connected with the latest news, advice and services in your patch, as well as carrying out your transactional needs.
Check it out at www.lls.nsw.gov.au.
NEW FEATURES ON THE WEBSITE INCLUDE
An online form hub Interactive map Improved searching Related information
• submit an enquiry • find your local region • filter resources on • up-to-date advice
• apply for a Property • get your local office topic or region • information based on
Identification Code contact details • find new resources your search
• change your details • find out about your including webinars • news and events at
• opt-in for news and region and podcasts your fingertips
advice
STAY
CONNECTED www.lls.nsw.gov.au
WITH US 1300 795 299
RATES RELIEF
Supporting our neighbours IN 2021
Was your property affected by recent bushfires? Good news for our
ratepayers with the
The NSW Government has committed $209 million to help NSW Government
bushfire-affected landholders with the cost of rebuilding waiving Local Land
boundary fences adjoining public lands. Services rates again in
Private landholders who share a boundary with public land and 2021. This is a result of
were impacted by the Northern and Southern fires of late 2019 a further $310 million
and early 2020 are eligible to receive up to $5,000 per kilometre in drought relief
to contribute to the replacement of damaged boundary fences, funding to support
or $10,000 per kilometre towards the replacement of exclusion farmers in ongoing
fencing. drought conditions.
Grants for the ‘Supporting Our Neighbours Program’ can You will still receive a
be issued retrospectively to cover costs already incurred by rates notice in 2021
landholders replacing fire damaged fencing where a boundary is but the waiver will be
shared with public lands. automatically applied
to your invoice and
We are administering the program and have dedicated no amounts will be
boundary fence coordinators ready to work with you. To apply, payable.
visit www.lls.nsw.gov.au or call the team on 1300 778 080.
Have you got a P I C ?
All landowners who run livestock on their property, or keep livestock as pets, have a legal obligation to have a
Property Identification Code (PIC) registered on their property.
PICs are vital during emergency events such as fire or flood as they help our team prioritise and target on-ground
assistance to those impacted or in immediate danger. They are also vital in the event of a biosecurity emergency
such as an animal disease outbreak as they improve traceability back to specific properties, allowing for a quick
and effective response to the emergency.
By completing your return accurately it allows our team to help you during emergencies and get back to business
faster when disaster happens. To find out more or apply for a PIC, visit www.lls.nsw.gov.au/pics
Meet your new Local Land Services board
It’s a case of boots to the boardroom as we welcome the new members of our regional boards. It’s a mix of new
and familiar faces from a wide diversity of backgrounds. They are getting to work, helping Local Land Services
connect with landholders and NSW communities to deliver services that address local needs.
The state Local Land Services Board is made up of the chairs of the regional
boards, who are appointed by the Minister of Agriculture and Western NSW.
The new look state board members are:
Richard Bull - Chair Bob Smith - North Coast
Ian Rogan - Central Tablelands Richard Clark - North West
Susan Madden - Central West Grahame Marriott - Northern
Tablelands
Robert Webster - Greater Sydney
Barney Hyams - Riverina
Tony Hegarty - Hunter
Allison Harker - South East
Derek Schoen - Murray
Magnus Aitken - Western
To meet your new regional board members visit www.lls.nsw.gov.au/our-boards.
Richard Bull
Chair
Frequently asked questions
What should I do if my contact Do I complete a separate form for Helpful definitions
details are incorrect? each holding?
Occupier
If the details on your return are Yes. A separate return must be lodged The occupier is the person(s)
incorrect, please visit our website for each of your holdings, including entitled to immediate
and use the change of details form primary and secondary holdings. Do possession and use of the
to update your details. You can also not lodge all your stock on one return if property. The occupier is not
contact your local office to update your they were not residing on one holding necessarily the owner.
details. at 30 June.
Intensive livestock
If submitting your return manually, Audits are carried out on Annual Land Intensive livestock production
please do not mark changes on and Stock Returns so information means the keeping or nurturing
the form as your return is scanned lodged must be true and correct. of stock for commercial
electronically and any changes won’t purposes, wholly or substantially,
be updated. How will my information be used? by routinely feeding them
Which stock should I count? prepared or manufactured feed
The livestock numbers on your
(except temporary feeding
completed form are vital in assisting
All livestock over six months of age during, and as a result of,
us when responding in emergencies.
must be counted on your return, drought, fire, flood or similar).
It also determines whether the animal
regardless of whether they are yours, Examples of intensive livestock
health rate and meat industry levies
they are being agisted, they are pets, or production include registered
are charged on your rates notice the
any other arrangement. feedlots and piggeries.
following year.
Pigs of any age must be counted, as Area used for intensive
Rates charges are primarily based on
well as flocks of 100 or more poultry. livestock
your land’s notional carrying capacity
and size, and not the numbers The area used for intensive
What if I am leasing the property? livestock is the area in hectares
submitted on your return.
As you have received this paperwork, that is used specifically for
our records show you as the legal What else do I need to do if I own intensive livestock production
occupier of this holding therefore you livestock? on the holding.
must lodge the return. Capacity of intensive area
If you have livestock on your property,
including livestock as pets, you must Capacity of intensive area is the
What if I am not the occupier?
have a Property Identification Code maximum number of livestock
If you were not the occupier of all or (PIC). If you have registered livestock on that can be maintained, for
part of the holding on 30 June, please this return and you do not have a PIC example the maximum capacity
use the change of details form on please use the PIC application form on of the feedlot or piggery. This
our website to update your details. our website. is not necessarily the figure
Alternatively, contact your local office declared as at 30 June, which is
PICs play an important role in livestock the actual stock at that time.
and they can confirm if you need to
traceability, and reducing the threat of
lodge a return. Native vegetation
spreading livestock diseases.
What if the property is changing Plants native to NSW, including
hands? If you have any questions that trees, understorey plants,
aren’t addressed in these FAQs, ground cover and wetland plants
If you are in the process of selling visit the website at defined in Section 60B of the
or leasing your land (including Local Land Services Act 2013. Area
exchanging contracts) and are still www.lls.nsw.gov.au/alsr shown as being under native
the legal occupier on 30 June, you are or contact your local office and vegetation should be rarely used
responsible for the Annual Land and speak to one of our friendly for agricultural purposes e.g.
Stock Return. customer service officers. grazing.
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