Western Australian Consolidated Acts

TREE PLANTATION AGREEMENTS ACT 2003 - SECT 7

7 .         Interest in land (plantation interest) created on registration of agreement

        (1)         When an agreement is registered —

            (a)         the property in the trees in a plantation that is the subject of the agreement becomes a separate interest, to be called a “plantation interest”, in the agreement land; and

            (b)         the proprietor of a plantation interest under the agreement is each person who is registered as a proprietor of that interest.

        (2)         Subsection (1)(a) applies even though the trees are affixed to the agreement land.

        (3)         A plantation interest is, in relation to the relevant agreement land —

            (a)         a hereditament; and

            (b)         an encumbrance.

Note:         The definition of “land” in the Transfer of Land Act 1893 includes hereditaments in freehold and Crown land.