An Act to make provision for the conservation of soil resources and farm water resources and for the mitigation of erosion; for these and other purposes to amend the Crown Lands Consolidation Act 1913 and certain other Acts; and for purposes connected therewith.
This Act may be cited as the Soil Conservation Act 1938.
This Act shall commence upon a day to be appointed by the Governor and notified by proclamation published in the Gazette.
(Repealed)
In this Act, unless the context or subject matter otherwise indicates or requires:
(a) the soil or other matter forming the channel in which the river flows, or
(b) the soil or other matter forming the bottom of the lake,
and includes so much of the sides and bottom of the channel or of the shores and bottom of the lake as contain the river or lake at its mean level (whether or not the river or lake is for the time being at its mean level), but does not include any part of the sides or bottom of the channel or of the shores or bottom of the lake covered by water in times of flooding only.
(a) lands used for farming, agricultural, horticultural, viticultural, vegetable-growing, market gardening, pastoral, grazing, poultry farming, silvicultural, floricultural or piscicultural purposes, and
(b) any other lands declared by the regulations to be farming lands for the purposes of this Act.
(a) is entitled to the land for any estate of freehold in possession, or
(b) is a person to whom the Crown has lawfully contracted to sell the land under the Crown Land Acts or any other Act relating to the alienation of lands of the Crown, or
(c) is entitled to receive, or is in receipt of, or if the land were let to a tenant would be entitled to receive, the rents and profits thereof, whether as beneficial…