An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to forestry; to provide for the dedication, reservation, control, and use of State forests, timber reserves, and Crown lands for forestry and other purposes; to appoint a commission to administer the Act, with power to sell and convert timber and products, and to purchase and sell animals to be depastured on State forests and timber reserves; to repeal the Forestry Act 1909; to amend the Acts relating to Crown lands, and certain other Acts; and for purposes consequent thereon or incidental thereto.
This Act may be cited as the Forestry Act 1916.
It shall commence on the first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.
(Repealed)
The Forestry Act 1909 is hereby repealed:
Provided that:
(a) all licences, permits and exclusive rights granted under the Act hereby repealed and in force at the commencement of this Act shall, until cancelled, continue in force for the respective periods for which they were granted, and the provisions of the Act hereby repealed shall, notwithstanding such repeal, apply to the same,
(b) all regulations made under the Act hereby repealed and in force at the commencement of this Act shall, mutatis mutandis, apply as if made under this Act, but may be amended or repealed by regulations made under this Act.
In this Act, unless the context requires another meaning:
(a) land within a State forest or flora reserve,
(b) Crown lands, whether or not held under a lease or licence from the Crown and whether or not included in a timber reserve, and
(c) land affected by a profit à prendre reserved in respect thereof under subsection (1) of section 25F,
but does not include:
(d) any Crown lands the subject of a tenure from the Crown specified or described in the First Schedule if the land the subject of that tenure has an area of 2 hectares or less, or
(e) any Crown lands the subject of a tenure from the Crown not specified in that Schedule.