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FORESTS ACT 1958 - SECT 57ZD

Offences relating to conduct in a firewood collection area

    (1)     A person must not, in a firewood collection area during a firewood collection season, cut or take away fallen or felled trees that are visibly hollow.

Penalty:     20 penalty units.

    (2)     A person must not, in a firewood collection area during a firewood collection season, cut or take away fallen or felled trees growing moss or fungi.

Penalty:     20 penalty units.

    (3)     A person must not, in a firewood collection area during a firewood collection season, fell, cut, chop, break off, dent, scrape or push over a standing tree (whether living or dead) that has a diameter of up to 15 centimetres at a height of 1·3 metres above the ground.

Penalty:     50 penalty units.

    (4)     A person must not, in a firewood collection area during a firewood collection season, fell, cut, chop, break off, dent, scrape or push over a standing tree (whether living or dead) that has a diameter of 15 centimetres or more at a height of 1·3 metres above the ground.

Penalty:     50 penalty units or imprisonment for 1 year or both.

S. 57ZE inserted by No. 46/2012 s. 5.



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