Tasmanian Consolidated Acts

FORESTRY ACT 1920 - SECT 4

      (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears –

"accumulation scheme" means the Tasmanian Accumulation Scheme established under the Public Sector Superannuation Reform Act 1999;

"annual supply of veneer and sawlog" means the minimum aggregate quantity of eucalypt veneer logs and eucalypt sawlogs that the corporation must make available annually for the veneer and sawmilling industries in accordance with section 22AA(1);

"biological diversity" means the variety of –

(a) plants, animals and micro-organisms; and

(b) the genes contained in plants, animals and micro-organisms; and

(c) the ecosystems of which plants, animals and micro-organisms form part;

"Board" means the Board of Directors of the corporation appointed under section 11(2) of the Government Business Enterprises Act 1995;

"chief executive officer" means the chief executive officer of the corporation appointed under section 12M;

"complying superannuation scheme" means a complying superannuation fund as provided by the law of the Commonwealth;

"contributory scheme" means the superannuation arrangements provided by Part 5 of the Retirement Benefits Regulations 2005;

"corporation" means the Forestry corporation established under section 6;

"Crown land" has the meaning assigned to that expression by section 2 of the Crown Lands Act 1976;

"Crown wood" means timber obtained from State forest or from Crown land other than State forest;

"employee" has the same meaning as in the Government Business Enterprises Act 1995;

"enactment" means –

(a) an Act; or

(b) any other instrument of a legislative character; or

(c) any provision of an Act or of an instrument of a legislative character;

"forest management plan" means a forest management plan prepared and approved in accordance with Part IIIA;

"forest operations" means work connected with –

(a) planting trees; or

(b) managing trees before they are harvested; or

(c) harvesting forest products –

and includes any related land clearing, land preparation, burning-off, access construction or transport operations;

"Forest Practices Code" means the Code issued by the Forest Practices Authority pursuant to section 30 of the Forest Practices Act 1985 and in force under that Act and includes any amendments to that Code;

"forest produce" or "forest product" means any of the following:

(a) vegetable growth that is on or from State forest;

(b) a product of a growing or dead tree, shrub, timber or other vegetable growth that is on or from State forest;

(c) sand, gravel, clay, loam or stone that is on or from State forest and used for forestry purposes, either inside or outside State forest;

"forest reserve" means land dedicated as a forest reserve under section 20;

"forest road" means –

(a) any road constructed or maintained by or for the corporation; or

(b) any other road on State forest, other than a State highway, or subsidiary road, within the meaning of the Roads and Jetties Act 1935; or

(c) any other road that is –

(i) on Crown land; and

(ii) being managed by a person for the purpose of timber production; or

(d) any bridge, tunnel, embankment, causeway, culvert, drain or other works constructed in respect of a road referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c);

"forestry purposes" includes purposes which facilitate conservation, environmental care and recreation on land which is State forest;

"functions" includes duties;

"geological diversity" means the natural range of geological, geomorphological and soil features, assemblages, systems and processes;

"interim forest management plan" means a proposed forest management plan that has taken effect as an interim forest management plan under section 22E;

"multiple use forest land" means land specified in the Register of Multiple Use Forest Land;

"newspaper notice" means a notice published in at least 2 newspapers published and circulated generally in Tasmania;

"Portfolio Minister" has the same meaning as in the Government Business Enterprises Act 1995;

"Private Forests Tasmania" has the same meaning as in the Private Forests Act 1994;

"Register of Multiple Use Forest Land" means the register maintained by the corporation in accordance with section 17;

"regulations" means regulations made and in force under this Act;

"reserved trees" means trees declared by notification in the Gazette to be reserved trees within the meaning of this Act;

"RSA" means a Retirement Savings Account within the meaning of the Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997 of the Commonwealth;

"sustainable forest management" means the management of forests consistent with the practical principles of forest management established in the Forest Practices Code;

"Tasmanian Planning Commission" means the Tasmanian Planning Commission established under the Tasmanian Planning Commission Act 1997;

"timber" includes the trunks and branches of trees, whether standing or not, and all wood, whether or not the same is cut up, sawn, hewn, split, or otherwise fashioned;

"timber classification officer" means a person appointed as a timber classification officer under section 23;

"trees" includes not only timber trees, but trees, shrubs and bushes, seedlings, saplings, and re-shoots of every description and the roots of any such trees;

"wood supply agreement" means an agreement, made between the corporation and another person, the principal or a principal term of which is that the corporation should make available to that person over a period of time a supply of timber at a rate exceeding 100 000 tonnes a year in return for monetary or other consideration.

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