Queensland Consolidated Acts

FORESTRY ACT 1959 - SECT 34

(1) The chief executive in addition to all other powers conferred by this Act may from time to time for the purposes of the use and management of State forests--

(a) determine and cause to be put into operation the silvicultural system most suitable to the circumstances of any State forest;

(b) make surveys including aerial and assessment surveys;

(c) subject to the provisions of subsection (2), determine, in relation to the period specified in the determination, the maximum quantities of forest products of any kind or description which may be removed from any State forest or State forests during such period without impairing the permanent productive capacity of the State forest or State forests in question, and any such determination may from time to time be altered, varied or rescinded;

(d) make roads and tracks thereon;

(e) undertake and carry out nursery operations thereon;

(f) undertake, carry out and maintain thereon protection works of every kind and description whatsoever;

(g) purchase, hire or rent plant, equipment, means or rights of access, or any other thing which the chief executive deems necessary;

(h) construct, build, erect, operate, or place thereon buildings, structures and other improvements (including but without limiting the generality hereof bridges, fences, fire lookouts, fire sheds, garages, houses, jetties, nurseries, offices, ranches, radio stations, storerooms, water supplies, wharves, workshops, workers' accommodation and telephone lines) and may furnish, equip, repair, improve and maintain the same;

(i) let or lease any buildings, structures or other improvements thereon on such terms and conditions as the chief executive deems fit;

(j) promote and encourage the use of a State forest or any part or parts thereof for recreational purposes.

(2) Any determination thereof by the chief executive of the maximum quantities of forest products of any kind or description which may be removed from any State forest or State forests during any specified period or any alteration, variation or rescission of any such determination shall be subject to the approval of the Minister.

(2A) Upon the approval of any such determination, or any alteration or variation thereof, forest products of any kind or description specified in the determination shall not during the period specified therein be removed from the State forest or State forests in question in excess of the maximum quantities thereof specified in the determination or, in the case of any alteration or variation thereof as aforesaid, in the determination as so altered or varied.

(3) Notwithstanding any lease, licence, permit or other right or authority granted under this or any other Act, the chief executive may within any State forest from time to time construct, carry out, improve, maintain, operate, protect, control, and otherwise manage any silvicultural or other works of any description whatsoever which the chief executive considers necessary or desirable for the proper utilisation and management of the State forest or to carry out the objects and purposes of this Act (whether in relation to the State forest or not).