Victorian Consolidated Legislation

State Owned Enterprises Act 1992 - SECT 86A

Competition policy authorisation-VicForests

86A. Competition policy authorisation-VicForests



(1) For the purposes of Part IV of the Trade Practices Act 1974 of the
Commonwealth and the Competition Code, any act or thing done by or in relation
to VicForests, or any director or officer on behalf of VicForests, that is
specified in subsection (2) as an act or thing or kind of act or thing to
which this section applies, is specifically authorised if the act or thing or
kind of act or thing is done with the consent of the Treasurer.

(2) This section applies to the following acts or things or kinds of acts or
things-

   (a)  tendering or auction processes for the allocation and sale of timber
        resources;

   (b)  a contract, arrangement or understanding entered into in connection
        with the allocation or sale of timber resources;

   (c)  giving effect to a contract, arrangement or understanding of the kind
        referred to in paragraph (b);

   (d)  any thing done in connection with a process, contract, arrangement or
        understanding of the kind referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c).

(3) This section does not apply to anything done, or conduct engaged in, on or
after 1 July 2015.

(4) In this section-

director means a director of VicForests; officer means an officer of
VicForests;
VicForests means the body known as "VicForests" that was established as a
State body under section 14 and declared to be a State business corporation
under section 17 by Orders in Council dated 28 October 2003 published in the
Government Gazette on that day.