CROWN LANDS ACT 1929 - SECT 275

This legislation has been repealed.

CROWN LANDS ACT 1929 - SECT 275

275—Injuring or removing timber, metals etc without licence

        (1)         Any person who—

            (a)         injures or destroys any tree, shrub or sapling, or cuts, saws, removes, or sells any timber being on Crown lands, or lands leased or dedicated under any of the Crown Lands Acts, or the Pastoral Act 1904 , or any Act incorporated therewith, or the Pastoral Act 1936 , as amended, without a licence or other valid authority, except on land so leased by him and for the purpose of making improvements on the said land or exercising or performing any of the rights conferred or duties imposed upon him by his lease; or

            (b)         unlawfully removes, or severs, excavates, quarries, or digs for, with intent to remove, any metal, or ore containing metal, or any stone, sand, gravel, or other material from any such lands, without a licence or other authority,

shall be liable to forfeit and pay, in addition to the value of the tree, shrub, sapling, timber, metal, or other material, a penalty of not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty dollars or to be imprisoned for any period not exceeding two months.

        (1a)         Penalty for contravening covenants as to cutting trees etc

Any lessee or purchaser who cuts, injures or destroys or permits to be cut, injured or destroyed any tree, shrub, or sapling in contravention of any term, covenant or condition in his lease or agreement, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of not less than ten dollars or more than twenty dollars.

        (2)         Any person found committing an offence against this section may be forthwith apprehended and taken before any justice of the peace by a Crown lands ranger, police constable, or person authorised by the ranger.