New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FORESTRY ACT 1916 - SECT 18

18 Dedication of State forests

(1) The Governor, by notice in the Gazette, may dedicate as a State forest any land vested in the Crown, and not lawfully contracted to be sold, and not the subject of a tenure from the Crown (except a tenure specified or described in the First Schedule of land having an area of more than 2 hectares), but may not include in such dedication land held under a conditional lease applied for before the first day of January one thousand nine hundred and ten, unless the land so leased is within a reserve from sale, and the Governor may cancel any previous dedication of such land.

(1A) A dedication of land under subsection (1) may be limited so as to exclude any land lying below the surface of the land at a depth greater than a depth specified in the notice dedicating the land.

(2) Land dedicated under this section or under the Act hereby repealed shall not be dealt with otherwise than in pursuance of this Act, and such dedication shall not be revoked or altered except under the authority of this Act.

(2A) Without affecting:

(a) the declaration of any land as national forest,

(a1) the declaration of any land as special management zone,

(b) the setting apart of any land as flora reserve,

(c) any rights or obligations conferred or imposed by or under this or any other Act,

the Governor may, by order published in the Gazette, constitute two or more State forests, or any parts of two or more State forests, as one State forest for the purposes of this Act.