National Park Estate (Southern Region Reservations) Act 2000 (NSW)

National Park Estate (Southern Region Reservations) Act 2000 No 103

An Act to transfer certain State forest and other Crown lands in the Southern region of the State to the national park estate, and for other purposes.

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Act This Act is the National Park Estate (Southern Region Reservations) Act 2000.

2 Commencement This Act commences on 1 January 2001, unless commenced sooner by proclamation.

3 Definitions In this Act: Crown land means Crown land within the meaning of the Crown Land Management Act 2016. national park estate means: (a) land declared as a wilderness area under the Wilderness Act 1987 or the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974, or (b) land reserved or dedicated under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974, or (c) land dedicated or set apart as a flora reserve under the Forestry Act 1916, or (d) land dedicated or reserved for a similar public purpose under the Crown Land Management Act 2016, or (e) land vested in the Minister administering the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 for the purposes of Part 11 of that Act. National Parks and Wildlife Reserve Trust means the National Parks and Wildlife Reserve Trust as reconstituted by section 9 of the National Park Estate (Land Transfers) Act 1998. State forest means land dedicated under the Forestry Act 1916 (or under the former Forestry Act 1909) as a State forest, being a dedication that is in force.

Part 2 Land transfers to national park estate

4 Revocation of dedication of certain lands as State forest and of reservation of associated flora reserves (1) The dedication as State forest of the following lands is revoked: (a) lands described in Schedule 1, (b) lands described in Part 1 of Schedule 4, (c) lands described in Schedule 5. (2) Any notices under section 25A of the Forestry Act 1916 that set apart, as flora reserves, areas of State forests whose dedication is revoked by subsection (1) are also revoked by this Act, but only to the extent to which they relate to flora reserves situated (or partly situated) within the lands referred to in that subsection. (3) Any notifications under section 19A of the Forestry Act 1916 that declare, as national forests, areas of State forests whose dedication is revoked by subsection (1) are also revoked by this Act, but only to the extent to which they relate to national forests or parts of national forests situated within the lands referred to in that subsection.