New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FORESTRY ACT 1916 - SECT 25

25 Existing leases and licences in State forests and timber reserves

(1) The dedication of land as a State forest or the declaration of land as a special management zone or the dedication or setting apart of land as a flora reserve or the reservation of land as a timber reserve shall not, except as in this Act provided, affect any lease or licence from the Crown current and in force at the time of such dedication, declaration or reservation:
Provided that, unless with the approval of the commission, any such lease or licence under the Western Lands Act 1901 shall not be renewed, and its terms shall not extend beyond the term or period current at the time aforesaid, and such renewal or extension shall be subject to such conditions as the commission thinks fit to impose. Any such other lease or licence shall not be renewed or extended.
Provided also that the administration of matters relating to such leases or licences (other than leases or licences within a timber reserve) shall be vested in the Minister or, with the approval of the Minister, in the commission, who or which for that purpose shall have the powers of the Minister for Lands.
But until and unless the Minister otherwise declares by notification in the Gazette, this proviso shall not apply to lands within the Western Division, and the administration of matters relating to leases and licences of such lands shall, until such notification, continue to be vested in the Minister for Lands.

(2) Any such lease or licence in respect of land in a State forest may be surrendered to the Crown as to the whole or part of the land included therein, and a forest lease under this Act may be granted in lieu thereof.

(3) Moneys payable as rent under any such lease or licence, other than a lease or licence within a timber reserve, shall be received by the commission.