Sandalwood Amendment Act 1996 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

SANDALWOOD AMENDMENT

ACT 1996

No. 74 of 1996

AN ACT to amend the Sandalwood Act 1929.

[Assented to 13 November 1996]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Sandalwood Amendment

Act 1996.

No. 74] Sandalwood Amendment Act 1996

s. 2

Principal Act

2.   In this Act the Sandalwood Act 1929* is referred to as the

principal Act.

[* Reprinted as approved 14 July 1971.]

Section 1 amended

3. Section 1 of the principal Act is amended by deleting

‘‘Forests Act, 1918’’ and substituting the following —

‘‘ Conservation and Land Management Act 1984 ’’.

Section 2 amended

4.   Section 2 of the principal Act is amended by inserting after

‘‘sandalwood’’ the following —

‘‘ , other than sandalwood grown on a plantation, ’’.

Section 3 amended

5. (1) Section 3 (1) (b) of the principal Act is amended by deleting ‘‘Conservator of Forests’’ and substituting the following —

‘‘ Executive Director ’’.

(2) After section 3 (1) of the principal Act the following

subsection is inserted —

‘‘

(1a) Subsection (1) (b) does not apply to

sandalwood grown on a plantation.

’’.

By Authority: JOHN A. STRIJK, Acting Government Printer