Forest Practices Regulations 1997

Forest Practices Regulations 1997

I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council and on the recommendation of the Forest Practices Board, make the following regulations under the Forest Practices Act 1985 .

G. S. M. GREEN

Governor

By His Excellency's Command,

JOHN BESWICK

Minister for Forests

1.   Short title

These regulations may be cited as the Forest Practices Regulations 1997 .

2.   Commencement

These regulations take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette.

3.   Interpretation

In these regulations –

Act means the Forest Practices Act 1985 ;

property means any land capable of assignment;

vulnerable land means land that –

(a) is more than 800 metres in elevation above sea level; or

(b) is within 40 metres of a Class 1, 2 or 3 watercourse within the meaning of the Forest Practices Code; or

(c) has a slope of more than 26°; or

(d) is within the High or Very High Soil Erodibility Class within the meaning of the Forest Practices Code; or

(e) is in a water supply catchment within 2 kilometres upstream of a water supply intake; or

(f) is inhabited by threatened species within the meaning of the Threatened Species Protection Act 1995 ;

water supply catchment means an area of land from which precipitation runs off or percolates through the soil to a watercourse or body of water;

water supply intake means any permanent device used for taking water for human use from a watercourse or body of water.

4.   Application fee

The fee for an application to have land declared as a private timber reserve under section 5(2)(d) of the Act is $100.

5.   Timber harvest plan not required

For the purposes of section 17(6) of the Act, timber harvesting operations may be carried out without an approved timber harvesting plan on land other than vulnerable land –

(a) if the timber is harvested exclusively for the production of firewood, unless harvesting machinery of class C1, C2, C3, C4 or C5, within the meaning of the Forest Practices Code, is used; or

(b) if the volume of timber harvested other than in accordance with paragraph (a) is less than 100 tonnes for each property for each year.

6.   Rescission

The Forest Practices Regulations 1993 (being Statutory Rules 1993, No. 107) are rescinded.

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 14 May 1997

These regulations are administered by the Forest Practices Board.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the regulation)

(a) prescribe $100 as the fee payable for an application to have land declared a private timber reserve; and

(b) prescribe the circumstances in which timber harvesting operations may be carried out without an approved timber harvesting plan.