Regional Forest Agreement (Land Classification) Act 1998

Regional Forest Agreement (Land Classification) Act 1998

This Act may be cited as the Regional Forest Agreement (Land Classification) Act 1998.

Division 3 of Part 2 and Schedules 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 commence on a day to be proclaimed.

Section 6 and Schedule 2 commence on a day to be proclaimed, being a day subsequent to the day proclaimed under subsection (1).

Division 2 of Part 2 and Schedule 5 commence on a day to be proclaimed, being a day subsequent to the day proclaimed under subsection (2).

Part 5 commences on the day proclaimed under subsection (3).

Sections 73, 75, 76, 77, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100 and 101 commence on the day proclaimed under subsection (1).

Sections 31, 32, 36, 40, 45, 48, 49, 51 and 52 commence on the day proclaimed under subsection (1).

Sections 33, 37, 41, 74, 78 and 79 commence on the day proclaimed under subsection (3).

The remaining provisions of this Act commence on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears – conservation area has the same meaning as in the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970; forest reserve has the same meaning as in the Forestry Act 1920; former Act means – in Division 1 of Part 2, the Forestry Act 1920 as in force immediately before the commencement of section 30; and in Division 2 of Part 2 and Schedule 5, the Crown Lands Act 1976 as in force immediately before the commencement of Part 5; and in Division 3 of Part 2, the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970 as in force immediately before the commencement of section 73; game reserve has the same meaning as in the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970; historic site has the same meaning as in the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970; national park has the same meaning as in the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970; nature recreation area has the same meaning as in the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970; nature reserve has the same meaning as in the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970; private land has the same meaning as in the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970; private sanctuary has the same meaning as in the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970; public reserve has the same meaning as in the Crown Lands Act 1976;Regional Forest Agreement means the agreement made on 8 November 1997 between the State of Tasmania and the Commonwealth of Australia relating to the management and use of Tasmanian forests; Register of Permanent Timber Production Zone Land has the same meaning as in the Forestry Act 1920; reserved land has the same meaning as in the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970;State forest has the same meaning as in the Forestry Act 1920;State reserve has the same meaning as in the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970.

Except as otherwise provided in this Act, a reference to the Forestry Act 1920, the Crown Lands Act 1976 or the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970 is a reference to that Act as amended by Part 4, 5 or 6.

In Division 3 of Part 2 – where the words a conservation area are used, those words refer to a conservation area within the meaning of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970 as in force immediately before the commencement of section 73; and where the words a State reserve are used, those words refer to a State reserve within the meaning of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970 as in force immediately before the commencement of section 73; and where the words a game reserve are used, those words refer to a game reserve within the meaning of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970 as in force immediately before the commencement of section 73; and where the words a local reserve are used, those words refer to a local reserve within the meaning of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970 as in force immediately before the commencement of section 73; and where the words a private reserve are used, those words refer to a private reserve within the meaning of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970 as in force immediately before the commencement of section 73.

In this Act, a reference to a plan by a number is a reference to the plan so numbered in the Central Plan Register.

Any area of land that, immediately before the commencement of this section, was State forest or a forest reserve under the former Act continues as such until or unless –

its dedication as State forest or a forest reserve is revoked under this Act or the Forestry Act 1920; or it ceases, under this Act or the Forestry Act 1920, to be State forest or a forest reserve.

The dedication as a forest reserve of all land, the approximate areas of which are specified in Column 2 of Schedule 1 and are indicated as shown bounded by heavy black lines on the plans listed in Column 3 of that Schedule, is revoked.

The dedication as a forest reserve of any land, the approximate area of which is specified in Column 2 of Schedule 2 and is indicated as shown bounded by heavy black lines on the relevant plan listed in Column 3 of that Schedule, is revoked.

Notwithstanding section 14(2) of the Forestry Act 1920, the dedication as State forest of any land, the approximate area of which is specified in Column 2 of Schedule 2 and is indicated as shown bounded by heavy black lines on the relevant plan listed in Column 3 of that Schedule, is revoked.

Any land, the approximate area of which is specified in Column 2 of Schedule 2 and is indicated as shown bounded by heavy black lines on the relevant plan listed in Column 3 of that Schedule, that became State forest, other than by dedication as such under the Forestry Act 1920, ceases to be State forest.

Any land, the approximate area of which is specified in Column 2 of Schedule 2 and is indicated as shown bounded by heavy black lines on the relevant plan listed in Column 3 of that Schedule, that was entered in the Register of Permanent Timber Production Zone Land under the former Act is deleted from that Register.

The reservation under the Crown Lands Act 1976 of any part of any land, the approximate area of which is specified in Column 2 of Schedule 3 and is indicated as shown bounded by heavy black lines on the relevant plan listed in Column 3 of that Schedule, is revoked.

All land, the approximate areas of which are specified in Column 2 of Schedule 3 and are indicated as shown bounded by heavy black lines on the plans listed in Column 3 of that Schedule, is entered in the Register of Permanent Timber Production Zone Land and is taken to have been so entered under the Forestry Act 1920.

The reservation under the Crown Lands Act 1976 of any part of any land, the approximate area of which is specified in Column 2 of Schedule 4 and is indicated as shown bounded by heavy black lines on the relevant plan listed in Column 3 of that Schedule, is revoked.

Any land, the approximate area of which is specified in Column 2 of Schedule 4 and is indicated as shown bounded by heavy black lines on the relevant plan listed in Column 3 of that Schedule, that was entered in the Register of Permanent Timber Production Zone Land under the former Act is deleted from that Register.

Any land, the approximate area of which is specified in Column 2 of Schedule 4 and is indicated as shown bounded by heavy black lines on the relevant plan listed in Column 3 of that Schedule, that was not State forest under the former Act is dedicated under this Act as State forest.

All land, the approximate areas of which are specified in Column 2 of Schedule 4 and are indicated as shown bounded by heavy black lines on the plans listed in Column 3 of that Schedule, is dedicated as a forest reserve and is taken to have been so dedicated under the Forestry Act 1920.

The Mineral Resources Development Act 1995 applies to all land, the approximate areas of which are specified in Column 2 of Schedule 4 and are indicated as shown bounded by heavy black lines on the plans listed in Column 3 of that Schedule.

The reservation under the former Act of any land specified in Part 1 of Schedule 5 is revoked.

In this section,Crown land has the same meaning as in the Crown Lands Act 1976.

The reservation of any area of Crown land, other than the land referred to in section 9, that, immediately before the commencement of this section was in force under the former Act, is revoked.

The following areas of Crown land are reserved to the Crown as public reserves and are taken to have been so reserved under the Crown Lands Act 1976, unless those areas of land are State forest or reserved land:the land the reservation of which was revoked under subsection (2); any area of Crown land specified in Part 2 of Schedule 5.

The Mineral Resources Development Act 1995 applies to any area of Crown land to which that Act applied immediately before the commencement of this Division that is reserved to the Crown as a public reserve under subsection (3).

Any land, the approximate area of which is specified in Column 2 of Schedule 6 and is indicated as shown bounded by heavy black lines on the relevant plan listed in Column 3 of that Schedule –

ceases to be or to form part of a conservation area; and ceases to be reserved land.