Forest Practices Act 1985

The Minister, on the recommendation of the Authority, is to appoint a State Service officer or State Service employee to be chief forest practices officer and that officer or employee holds that office in conjunction with State Service employment.

A person appointed as chief forest practices officer must have – extensive expertise in forestry; and extensive experience in forest operations; and knowledge of the sustainable management of forests; and management skills.

If a person who is appointed as chief forest practices officer was not a forest practices officer immediately before that appointment, he or she is, by virtue of that appointment and without further authorisation than this subsection, a forest practices officer for the purposes of this Act.

The Authority may recommend to the Minister that the appointment of a person as chief forest practices officer should be terminated if the Authority is reasonably of the opinion that the person – is not discharging the duties of that office efficiently or in the best interests of the State; or is, except by reason of temporary illness, unfit to discharge or incapable of discharging the duties of the office.

Subsection (4) does not limit or affect a power to terminate the appointment of a person as chief forest practices officer that is contained in any other enactment or in any contract of service relating to that office.