Forest Management Act 2013 (Tas)

Forest Management Act 2013

An Act to provide for the management of permanent timber production zone land, to repeal the Forestry Act 1920 and for related purposes [Royal Assent 6 November 2013]

Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:

PART 1 - Preliminary

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Forest Management Act 2013 .

2. Commencement This Act commences on a day to be proclaimed.

3. Interpretation In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears – annual supply of veneer and sawlog means the minimum aggregate quantity of eucalypt veneer logs and eucalypt sawlogs that the Forest Manager must make available annually for the veneer and sawmilling industries in accordance with section 16 ; conservation area has the same meaning as in the Nature Conservation Act 2002 ; CPR Plan means a plan in the Central Plan Register; Crown land has the same meaning as in the Crown Lands Act 1976 ; Forest Manager means the Forest Manager referred to in section 7 ; forest operations means work connected with – (a) seeding and planting trees; or (b) managing trees before they are harvested; or (c) harvesting, extracting or quarrying forest products – and includes any related land clearing, land preparation, burning-off or access construction; Forest Practices Code means the Code issued by the Forest Practices Authority pursuant to section 30 of the Forest Practices Act 1985 and in force under that Act, and includes any amendments to that Code; forest product means any of the following: (a) vegetable growth that is on or from permanent timber production zone land; (b) a product of growing or dead trees, shrub, timber or other vegetable growth that is on or from permanent timber production zone land; (c) sand, gravel, clay, loam or stone that is on or from permanent timber production zone land; forest road means – (a) any road constructed or maintained by or for the Forest Manager either inside or outside permanent timber production zone land; or (b) any other road on permanent timber production zone land, other than – (i) a State highway within the meaning of the Roads and Jetties Act 1935 ; or (ii) a subsidiary road within the meaning of the Roads and Jetties Act 1935 ; or (iii) a local highway within the meaning of the Local Government (Highways) Act 1982 ; or (c) any other road that is – (i) on Crown land; and (ii) being managed by a person for the purpose of timber production; or (d) any bridge, tunnel, embankment, causeway, culvert, drain or other works constructed in respect of a road referred to in paragraph (a) , (b) or (c) ; Forestry corporation means the Forestry corporation continued under section 6 ; future potential production forest land has the same meaning as in the Forestry (Rebuilding the Forest Industry) Act 2014 ; permanent timber production zone land means – (a) Crown land declared to be permanent timber production zone land under section 10 ; or (b) land referred to in section 12 ; or (c) land referred to in Schedule 2 ; regional reserve has the same meaning as in the Nature Conservation Act 2002 ; regulations means regulations made and in force in accordance with this Act; repealed Act means the Forestry Act 1920 ; timber includes the trunks and branches of trees, whether standing or not, and all wood, whether or not the same is cut up, sawn, hewn, split, or otherwise fashioned; timber classification officer means a person appointed as a timber classification officer under section 17 ; trees includes not only timber trees, but trees, shrubs and bushes, seedlings, saplings and re-shoots of every description and the roots of any such trees.