Conservation and Land Management Amendment Regulations (No. 4) 2016 (WA)

30 August 2016 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 3685

CONSERVATION

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Conservation and Land Management Act 1984

Conservation and Land Management Amendment Regulations (No. 4) 2016

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations are the Conservation and Land Management
Amendment Regulations (No. 4) 2016.

2.            Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows —

(a)	regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette;
(b)	the rest of the regulations — on the day after that day.

3.            Regulations amended

These regulations amend the Conservation and Land
Management Regulations 2002.

Act 2015 section 12 came into operation;

4.            Part 11 inserted

After regulation 123 insert:

Part 11 — Transitional regulations

124. State forests: Conservation and Land Management
Amendment Act 2015 section 12

(1) In this regulation —

section 9(2) means section 9(2) of the Act as in force
before the section 12 commencement;
section 12 commencement means the day on which the
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State forest resolution means a resolution under
section 9(2) that a proposal that the whole or part of a
State forest is to cease to be State forest be carried out.

(2) The Governor may by order published in the Gazette declare land to be no longer State forest if, before the section 12 commencement —

(a)	each House of Parliament had passed a State forest resolution in relation to the land; but
(b)	the Governor had not acted under section 9(2) in respect of the resolution.

(3) On the publication of an order under subregulation (2)

declaring that land is no longer State forest, the land —

(a)	in the case of land acquired under section 15 of the Act and set apart as a State forest, becomes vested in the Executive Body and section 131 of the Act applies to it; and
(b)

in any other case, becomes Crown land within Act 1997.

K. H. ANDREWS, Clerk of the Executive Council.