The director of Byron Bay's iconic Bluesfest is threatening to move the event out of NSW, claiming new State Government guidelines could put the festival out of business.

Key points: The NSW Government introduced tougher guidelines for music festivals after several drug-related deaths

The NSW Government introduced tougher guidelines for music festivals after several drug-related deaths The Bluesfest director Peter Noble claims the majority of festivals are already safe

The Bluesfest director Peter Noble claims the majority of festivals are already safe He has threatened to move the event out of NSW, citing increased costs

Peter Noble said new strict licencing and safety guidelines could cost the festival, which is in its 30th year, hundreds of thousands of dollars.

"We are the industry professionals, we are the people that are presenting events at the highest levels, I mean Bluesfest has just been inducted into the NSW Tourism Awards hall of fame," Mr Noble said.

The NSW Government introduced the rules following a spate of drug-related festival deaths.

The guidelines require a greater police presence and more medical care services as part of festival organiser's risk assessments.

Byron Bay is less than 100km from the Queensland border.

"We are all concerned about people dying from drug overdoses, but in 30 years my festival has never had one and so have the vast majority of festivals, yet we're all getting tarred with the same brush," Mr Noble said.

"By all means always look at harm reduction but at the same point in time don't put us out of business."

The NSW Government released its interim Guidelines for Music Festival Event Organisers: Music Festival Harm Reduction in December.

"It represents their (Department of Health, Police, and Liquor and Gambling) concerns and those concerns should be discussed but my industry has never been asked to attend a meeting, to sit down, to work out something," Mr Noble said.

However the document says NSW Ministry of Health developed the guidelines with consultation from NSW Ambulance, local health districts, NSW Poisons Information Centre, peer based harm reduction programs, event organisers and private onsite medical providers.

Bluesfest director Peter Noble believes leaving NSW will be a matter of survival. ( Supplied: Bluesfest )

The State Government has said community safety is its top priority and the new measures will keep people safe at festivals.

Mr Noble is also concerned the report's final guidelines have not been released yet.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian has said the new laws would be introduced on March 1, but today claimed Bluesfest would be unaffected.

"Our changes from March are for the high risk events where we've seen death or serious injury," she said.

"That festival has been going for 29 years, it's a fantastic festival, it's low risk so they don't have anything to worry about … I don't want anyone who's holding a festival for a long time to be worried, this is not aimed at you."

Mr Noble said the guidelines were unjust.

"I am a music industry professional who presents an event at the highest level of compliance possible," he said.

His threat to move Bluesfest comes just days after the Mountain Sounds Festival, on the NSW Central Coast, was cancelled.

Organisers claimed they were blindsided by a $200,000 bill for additional police and new licencing conditions.

