Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Forests Act 1958 - SECT 53

Power to submit certain leases licences or permits to auction or tender

53. Power to submit certain leases licences or permits to auction or tender



(1) Before any lease under section fifty-one of this Act or any licence or
permit under section fifty-two of this Act is granted, the right to such
lease, if the Secretary so recommends, or (as the case may be) the right to
such licence or permit may be offered, subject to the regulations, for sale by
auction or by tender and the rental of the said lease and the royalties dues
or charges payable with respect to forest produce by the holder of the said
lease licence or permit shall in that case be fixed thereby.

(2) For the purposes of this Act royalty on timber may be assessed, as the
Secretary considers appropriate, on timber standing or in the log or on the
quantity of merchantable timber produced after conversion from the log.



(3) The contents of timber cut for milling purposes and measured in the log
shall be calculated on the quarter girth system or such other system as is
prescribed.