New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FORESTRY ACT 1916 - SECT 27A

27A Timber licences

(1) A timber licence authorises the holder, subject to the regulations and subject to the conditions and limitations of the licence, to take timber, or such class or description of timber as is specified in the licence, on Crown-timber lands.

(2) The term of a timber licence is the term specified in the licence, but the term:

(a) must not exceed 5 years without the prior written approval of the Minister, and

(b) must not, in any event, exceed 20 years.

(3) Timber licences are to be issued by the commission.