New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FORESTRY ACT 1916 - SECT 4

4 Definitions

(1) In this Act, unless the context requires another meaning:
"carbon sequestration" has the same meaning as it has in section 87A of the Conveyancing Act 1919 .
"Clearing licence" means a licence issued under section 27G which is in force.
"Crown lands" has the same meaning as in the Crown Lands Act 1989 .
"Crown Lands Acts" has the same meaning as in the Crown Lands Act 1989 .
"Crown-timber lands" means:

(a) land within a State forest or flora reserve,

(b) Crown lands, whether or not held under a lease or licence from the Crown and whether or not included in a timber reserve, and

(c) land affected by a profit à prendre reserved in respect thereof under subsection (1) of section 25F,

but does not include:

(d) any Crown lands the subject of a tenure from the Crown specified or described in the First Schedule if the land the subject of that tenure has an area of 2 hectares or less, or

(e) any Crown lands the subject of a tenure from the Crown not specified in that Schedule.

"Flora reserve" means land dedicated or set apart under this Act as a flora reserve.
"Forest lease" means a lease granted under section 33 (1) which is in force.
"Forest materials" means rock, stone, clay, shells, earth, sand, gravel or any like material.
"Forest materials licence" means a licence issued under section 27C which is in force.
"Holder", in relation to a clearing licence, includes, except in section 27G, a successor in title to the land in respect of which the clearing licence is issued.
"Lease" when referring to a lease under the Crown Lands Acts includes a promise of lease under those Acts; and "lessee" means the holder of such lease, and includes the holder of any such promise.
"Licence" means a licence issued by the commission under this Act.
"Motor cycle" means any motor vehicle which has 2 wheels or, where a sidecar or sidebox is attached thereto, has 3 wheels.
"Motor vehicle" means a motor car, motor carriage, motor cycle or other apparatus propelled on land, snow or ice wholly or partly by volatile spirit, steam, gas, oil or electricity.
"natural resource environmental service" includes any of the following:

(a) the establishment, purchase, management or maintenance of planted forests for the purpose of mine site management, carbon sequestration, forest biomass production, soil and water catchment improvement, biodiversity conservation, control of feral and weed species, research or for any other environmental purpose,

(b) the provision of any service that is necessary or incidental to a matter referred to in paragraph (a) including:

(i) the procurement of land, the registration of interests in land and the obtaining of any necessary statutory approvals, and

(ii) the accreditation or other authorisation of a plantation, and

(iii) the securing of contractual arrangements,

(c) any other service provided in connection with the use or management of planted forests that is prescribed by the regulations.

"Products" means:

(a) products of trees or shrubs, and

(b) vegetable growth (other than timber),

of economic value.
"Products licence" means a licence issued under section 27B which is in force.
"special management zone" means any area of State forest declared to be a special management zone under section 21A.
"State forest" means land dedicated under this Act, or under the Act hereby repealed, as a State forest.
"The commission" means the Forestry Commission of New South Wales constituted under this Act.
"The regulations" means the regulations made under this Act.
"Timber" includes trees of any age or description, whether growing or dead.
"Timber licence" means a licence issued under section 27A which is in force.
"Timber reserve" means land temporarily reserved, before or after the commencement of this Act, for forestry purposes.
"Tree" means a tree of any description and includes a sapling and a seedling of a tree.
"Working plan" means a detailed written scheme, as approved by the Minister, of the operations to be undertaken on or in relation to a particular flora reserve.

(2) Notes included in this Act do not form part of this Act.