Forest Management Act 2013

Each year the Forest Manager must make available – for the veneer and sawmilling industries, a minimum aggregate quantity of eucalypt veneer logs and eucalypt sawlogs, from permanent timber production zone land, that meets the prescribed specifications that are in force immediately before the commencement of this Act; and for a prescribed industry, the prescribed quantity, prescribed type and prescribed specification of other prescribed timber (including special species timber, as defined in section 3 of the Forestry (Rebuilding the Forest Industry) Act 2014).

In subsection (1)(a) – minimum aggregate quantity means – 137 000 cubic metres of any combination of eucalypt veneer quality 1, eucalypt veneer quality 2, category 1 sawlogs, and category 3 sawlogs, as specified in Schedule 1 to the Forestry Regulations 2009; or if another quantity is prescribed, the prescribed quantity.

The regulations may prescribe the time for which the quantity, type and specification of other timber is to be made available and the source of the other timber.