Forest Management Regulations 2019

Forest Management Regulations 2019

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, make the following regulations under the Forest Management Act 2013 .

16 July 2019

C. WARNER

Governor

By Her Excellency's Command,

GUY BARNETT

Minister for Resources

1.   Short title

These regulations may be cited as the Forest Management Regulations 2019 .

2.   Commencement

These regulations take effect on 26 August 2019.

3.   Interpretation

In these regulations –

Act means the Forest Management Act 2013 .

4.   Copy of prescribed specifications in force immediately before commencement of Forest Management Act 2013

(1)  For illustration purposes only, a copy of the prescribed specifications in force immediately before the commencement of the Act is set out in Schedule 1 .

(2)  Section 16(1)(a) of the Act requires that each year the Forest Manager must make available, for the veneer and sawmilling industries, a minimum aggregate quantity of eucalypt veneer logs and eucalypt sawlogs, from permanent timber production zone land, that meets the prescribed specifications that were in force immediately before the commencement of the Act.

SCHEDULE 1 - Copy of Prescribed Specifications in Force Immediately before Commencement of Forest Management Act 2013

Regulation 4

PART 1 - Specifications for timbers for the manufacture of veneers

Division 1 - Eucalypt – veneer quality 1

Division 2 - Eucalypt – veneer quality 2

PART 2 - Sawlog specifications

1.   Eucalypt  – Category 1 (First-grade mature-timber sawlog):

(a) minimum dimensions –

(i) length – 360cm;

(ii) diameter – 40cm;

(b) permissible defects –

(i) end-defect limit  – as specified in Part 3 of this Schedule;

(ii) limbs and bumps (not including epicormic growth)  – one significant limb or bump per 300cm of length;

(iii) spiral grain  – not exceeding 25cm circumferential displacement per 200cm of length (one in eight);

(iv) scars (open or overgrown)  – a total length of scar or scars not exceeding 200cm per 360cm of log length, provided that the wood adjoining the scar is sound or has surface rot only and is not badly affected by borers;

(v) sweep  – not exceeding 1/7 of mid-diameter under bark (u.b.) in any 240cm length;

(c) specification (split logs)  – log sections 360cm long or greater, split from a log with a small-end diameter exceeding 60cm (minimum cross-sectional area of flitch 40cm by 30cm) and which yield a minimum sawn flitch 15cm by 15cm free of heart, sap and defect;

(d) specification (sawn flitches) –

(i) half and quarter logs sawn from a log meeting the minimum dimension and having permissible defects meeting paragraph (b)(i) , (ii) , (iii) and (v) above;

(ii) sawn flitches with a minimum length of 240cm and minimum section of 15cm by 15cm and meeting paragraph (b)(iii) above.

2.   Eucalypt – Category 2 (Logs):

(a) minimum dimensions –

(i) length – 2.4 metres (plus allowable overcut);

(ii) small-end diameter – 30cm –

provided that logs do not contain Category 1 and 3 logs;

(b) permissible defects –

(i) end-defect limit – as specified in Part 3 of this Schedule;

(ii) limbs and bumps (not including epicormic growth) – no more than two significant limbs or bumps per 2.4 metres of length;

(iii) spiral grain – not exceeding 25cm circumferential displacement per 200cm of length;

(iv) scars (open or overgrown) – a total length of scar or scars not exceeding 240cm per 240cm of log length, provided that the wood adjoining the scar is sound or has surface rot only and is not badly affected by borers;

(v) sweep – not exceeding 1/7 of the mid-diameter under bark (u.b.) in any 240cm length;

(c) specification (split logs)  – log sections 240cm long or greater (plus allowable overcut), which yield a minimum sawn flitch 15cm by 15cm end section free of heart, sap and defect;

(d) specification (allowable overcut) –

(i) for logs not exceeding 5.4 metres in length – the allowable overcut is 10cm;

(ii) for logs exceeding 5.4 metres in length – the allowable overcut is 20cm.

3.   Eucalypt  – Category 3 (First-grade regrowth sawlog):

(a) minimum dimensions –

(i) length  – 360cm;

(ii) diameter  – 30cm under bark (u.b.);

(b) permissible defects for log sections not exceeding 40cm under bark (u.b.)  – nil;

(c) permissible defects for log sections exceeding 40cm under bark (u.b.) –

(i) end-defect limit – as specified in Part 3 of this Schedule;

(ii) limbs and bumps (not including epicormic growth)  – one significant limb or bump per 300cm of length;

(iii) spiral grain  – not exceeding 25cm circumferential displacement per 200cm of length (one in eight);

(iv) scars (open or overgrown)  – a total length of scar or scars not exceeding 200cm per 360cm of log length, provided that the wood adjoining the scar is sound, or has surface rot only, and is not badly affected by borers;

(v) sweep  – not exceeding 1/7 of mid-diameter under bark (u.b.) in any 240cm length;

(d) specification (split logs)  – log sections 360cm long or greater, split from a log with small-enddiameter exceeding 60cm (minimum cross-sectional area of flitch 40cm by 30cm) and which yield a minimum sawn flitch 15cm by 15cm free of heart, sap and defect;

(e) specification (sawn flitches) –

(i) half and quarter logs sawn from a log meeting the minimum dimension and having permissible defects meeting paragraph (c)(i) , (ii) , (iii) and (v) above;

(ii) sawn flitches with a minimum length of 240cm and minimum section of 15cm by 15cm and meeting paragraph (c)(iii) above;

(f) unacceptable defect  – severe end-splitting (flying).

4.   Eucalypt  – Category 8 (Logs):

(a) minimum dimensions –

(i) length – 2.4 metres (plus allowable overcut);

(ii) small-end diameter – 30cm –

provided that logs do not contain Category 1, 2 or 3 logs;

(b) permissible defects –

(i) end-defect limit – as specified in Part 3 of this Schedule;

(ii) limbs, bumps and scars – no restrictions on defects provided defects are green and solid with 120cm of solid wood between any limb or bump;

(iii) gum – no restriction;

(iv) spiral grain – not exceeding 25cm circumferential displacement per 150cm of length;

(v) sweep – no restriction;

(c) specifications (allowable overcut) –

(i) for logs not exceeding 5.4 metres in length – the allowable overcut is 10cm;

(ii) for logs exceeding 5.4 metres in length – the allowable overcut is 20cm.

PART 3 - End-defect limits in logs referred to in Part 2

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

Notified in the Gazette on 24 July 2019

These regulations are administered in the Department of State Growth.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the regulation)

These regulations –

(a) set out, for illustration purposes only, a copy of the prescribed specifications in force immediately before the commencement of the Forest Management Act 2013 that are referred to in section 16(1)(a) of that Act; and

(b) are made consequentially on the repeal of the Forestry Regulations 2009 under section 11 of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1992 .