FORESTS ACT 1958 - SECT 57Q Offence to cut or take away fallen or felled trees outside firewood collection area and season
FORESTS ACT 1958 - SECT 57Q
Offence to cut or take away fallen or felled trees outside firewood collection area and season(1) A person must not cut or take away 2 cubic metres or less of fallen or felled trees in State forest.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
(2) A person must not cut or take away more than 2 cubic metres of fallen or felled trees in State forest.
Penalty: 50 penalty units or imprisonment for 1 year or both.
(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to a person who—
(a) cuts or takes away fallen or felled trees in State forest in accordance with a lease, licence, permit or authorisation held by the person under this Act or any other Act; or
(b) cuts or takes away fallen or felled trees in State forest in accordance with the regulations or regulations under any other Act.
(4) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to a person who cuts or takes away fallen or felled trees if—
(a) the person cuts or takes away the fallen or felled trees—
(i) in a firewood collection area; and
(ii) during a firewood collection season applying to that area; and
(b) the person cuts or takes away the fallen or felled trees for domestic use as firewood in the person's household or in a nominating person's household.
S. 57Q(5) amended by No. 4/2013 s. 33(2), repealed by No. 67/2016 s. 31(2).
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S. 57R inserted by No. 46/2012 s. 5.