Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Sustainable Forests (Timber) Act 2004 - SECT 3

Definitions

3. Definitions

In this Act- allocation order means an order made in accordance with Part 3;
approved timber release plan means a timber release plan approved by the
Secretary in accordance with Part 5; authorised officer has the same meaning
as it has in section 3 of the Conservation, Forests and Lands Act 1987; Code
of Practice has the same meaning as it has in section 3 of the
Conservation, Forests and Lands Act 1987; coupe means a specific area of State
forest identified for the purposes of timber harvesting and regeneration in a
timber release plan; forest stand means a group of trees within a State forest
that share common characteristics relating to eucalypt species composition and
age; managed licence means a transferred agreement or transferred licence
(east) which VicForests administers, manages and enforces under Part 4;

Minister for Agriculture means the Minister administering the
Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Control of Use) Act 1992; principles of
ecologically sustainable development means the principles set out in section
5; Secretary means the body corporate established by Part 2 of the
Conservation, Forests and Lands Act 1987; State forest has the same meaning as
it has in the Forests Act 1958; suspension notice means a notice issued under
section 71;

timber harvesting operations means any of the following kinds of activities
carried out by VicForests or by any other person or body for the purposes of
sale or processing and sale-

   (a)  felling or cutting of trees or parts of trees;

   (b)  taking or removing timber;

   (c)  delivering timber to a buyer or transporting timber to a place for
        collection by a buyer or sale to a buyer;

   (d)  any works, including road works, ancillary to any of the activities
        referred to in paragraphs (a) to (c)- but does not include-

   (e)  those activities when undertaken by or on behalf of the Crown or the
        Secretary; or

   (f)  the collection of firewood for domestic use; timber harvesting
        operator's licence means a licence issued under Division 2 of Part 6;
        timber release plan means a plan prepared by VicForests in accordance
        with Part 5; timber resources means timber from the trees or parts of
        trees which are specified as available for timber harvesting in an
        allocation order but does not include firewood collected for domestic
        use; transferred agreement means-

   (a)  the agreement entered into pursuant to section 21 of the
        Forests Act 1958 between the Secretary and Harris Daishowa (Australia)
        Pty Ltd, ACN 000 604 795 and dated 29 September 1997, as amended from
        time to time in accordance with its terms;

   (b)  an agreement entered into pursuant to section 21 of the
        Forests Act 1958 to which an order under section 35 applies;
        transferred licence (east) means a licence or permit granted under
        section 52 of the Forests Act 1958 in respect of the east of the State
        of Victoria-

   (a)  specified in Schedule 1 and in existence immediately before the
        commencement of that Schedule; or

   (b)  to which an order under section 35 applies;





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vested timber resources means timber resources vested in VicForests under
section 42; VicForests has the same meaning as it has in the
Conservation, Forests and Lands Act 1987.