New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FORESTRY ACT 1916 - SECT 33

33 Issue of forest leases

(1) The commission may lease, on such conditions as it thinks fit, land within State forests for grazing or any purpose approved by the commission and not opposed to the interests of forestry.

(2) A forest lease:

(a) for a term exceeding six years or for an area exceeding 40 hectares shall not be granted except with the approval of the Minister,

(b) shall not, unless it contains conditions referred to in subsection (3), be granted for a term exceeding twenty years, or

(c) shall not, if it contains any such conditions, be granted for a term exceeding fifty years.

(3) A forest lease:

(a) may contain conditions requiring the lessee to carry out work in connection with the sylvicultural management of the trees and products on the land the subject of the lease in accordance with a working plan for that land referred to in the lease, and

(b) where it contains any such conditions, may provide that the lessee shall be entitled:

(i) to such part of the royalties paid for timber or products taken from the land the subject of the lease pursuant to a timber licence or products licence as may be specified in the lease, or

(ii) if timber or products are taken by the commission from the land the subject of the lease, to such part of the royalties that would have been payable under this Act if the timber or products had been taken pursuant to a timber licence or products licence as may be specified in the lease.