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FORESTS ACT 1958 - SECT 40

Power to make regulations as to classification grading and naming of Victorian timbers etc.

    (1)     The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to the classification grading and naming for the purposes of this Act of any timbers obtained from trees grown in Victoria whether indigenous or not (hereinafter called Victorian timber ) and of any other forest produce.

S. 40(2) amended by No. 10235 s. 3(b).

    (2)     On any sale or in any contract for the sale of Victorian timber of any kind or of any forest produce of any kind every person who on or after a date to be proclaimed for the purpose by the Governor in Council by proclamation published in the Government Gazette knowingly describes any such kind of timber or forest produce

        (a)     by any other name than the name prescribed as the true name of such kind of timber or forest produce by the regulations; or

        (b)     as being of any other class or grade of such kind of timber or forest produce than the class or grade prescribed by the regulations for timber or forest produce of that kind of the same average quality—

shall be liable to a penalty of not more than 5 penalty units.

State forests

No. 6073 s. 41.

S. 41 (Heading) inserted by No. 12/2016 s. 22(1).

S. 41 amended by Nos 6976 s. 7(1)(a), 12/2016 s. 22(2) (ILA s. 39B(1)).



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