Regional Forest Agreement (Land Classification) Act 1998

Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended as follows:

by inserting the following definition before the definition of assigned land:Appeal Tribunal means the Resource Management and Planning Appeal Tribunal established under the Resource Management and Planning Appeal Tribunal Act 1993;

by inserting the following definitions after the definition of assigned land:biological diversity means the variety of – plants, animals and micro-organisms; and the genes contained in plants, animals and micro-organisms; and the ecosystems of which plants, animals and micro-organisms form part;Conservation Management Trust means a Conservation Management Trust established under section 12I;

by inserting the following definition after the definition of Director-General:geological diversity means the natural range of geological, geomorphological and soil features, assemblages, systems and processes;

by inserting the following definition after the definition of improvements:land includes land covered by the sea or other waters, and the part of the sea or those waters covering that land;

by inserting the following definitions after the definition of Land Valuation Court:management plan has the meaning assigned to that expression by section 12C(5); managing authority, in relation to any Crown land reserved as a public reserve, means the managing authority for that land pursuant to section 12G;

by inserting the following definitions after the definition of mining right:Panel means the Inter-Agency Assessment Panel established under section 12A; prescribed body means – a public authority having jurisdiction over the locality in which the Crown land reserved as a public reserve is located; or a body corporate – whose objectives or purposes in the opinion of the Minister are primarily conservation purposes; and that in the opinion of the Minister has a structure and capacity to effectively exercise the functions of a managing authority; or a Conservation Management Trust; public authority has the same meaning as in the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970; public reserve means Crown land that has been reserved to the Crown as a public reserve under section 8; purposes of reservation, in relation to any Crown land reserved as a public reserve, means the purposes for which that land was reserved; resource management and planning system objectives means the objectives of the resource management and planning system of Tasmania as set out in Schedule 3;

by omitting "production." from the definition of rural land and substituting "production;";

by inserting the following definitions after the definition of rural land:statutory power has the same meaning as in the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970; works includes the following:any change to the natural or existing condition or topography of land; any building work within the meaning of the Local Government (Building and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1993; any other works the Governor, by proclamation, declares to be works for the purposes of this Act.

The amendments effected by this section have been incorporated into the authorised version of the Crown Lands Act 1976.