New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FORESTRY ACT 1916 - SECT 25A

25A Flora reserves

(1) The Governor may, by notice in the Gazette, dedicate any area of Crown lands not being Crown lands 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) or set apart the whole or a portion of any State forest as a flora reserve for the preservation of native flora.

(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) Crown lands shall not be dedicated under this section except with the concurrence of the Minister for Lands.

(3) The setting apart under this section of the whole or a part of a State forest as a flora reserve shall not affect the dedication as a State forest of the area so set apart.

(4) Subject to section 16A, a notice in the Gazette under this section shall not be revoked either wholly or in part otherwise than by Act of Parliament.

(5)

(a) The commission shall, in respect of each flora reserve, cause to be drawn up a detailed written scheme of the operations which it is proposed to undertake on or in relation to the flora reserve.

(b) The object of the scheme shall be the preservation of native flora on the flora reserve.

(c) Such scheme shall be submitted to the Minister for the Minister’s approval, and if approved by the Minister shall become the working plan for such flora reserve.

(d) No operations shall be undertaken on or in relation to a flora reserve unless such operations are in accordance with the working plan for the reserve.

(e) The working plan for a flora reserve may, with the approval of the Minister, be amended or altered from time to time.

(f) A working plan may contain provisions authorising the council of an area (within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1993 ) within the boundary of which a flora reserve or part thereof is situate to participate to the extent specified in the working plan in the management of such reserve or in the undertaking of any operations authorised by the working plan to be undertaken on or in relation to such reserve, and in any such case the council concerned may expend out of its consolidated fund any moneys necessary to meet the costs and expenses of exercising the authority conferred upon it by the working plan.

(g) A working plan may also contain provisions authorising the representative or representatives of any local committee or public body or organisation to participate, to the extent specified in the working plan, in the management of the flora reserve or in the undertaking of any operations authorised by the working plan to be undertaken on the reserve.