Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) A person must not cut, split, fell, obtain, remove or take any timber in a State forest, except as set out in subsection (2).
Penalty: 50 penalty units or imprisonment for 1 year or both.
Note
A person involved in the commission of an offence may be taken to have committed that offence: see section 324 of the Crimes Act 1958 .
S. 96AA(1A) inserted by No. 24/2024 s. 25(1).
(1A) A person must not cut, split, fell, obtain, remove or take any timber in a State forest for the primary purpose of the sale or the processing and sale of the timber, except as set out in subsection (2)(a) or (b).
Penalty: In the case of a natural person, 120 penalty units;
In the case of a body corporate, 600 penalty units.
Note
A person involved in the commission of an offence may be taken to have committed that offence: see section 324 of the Crimes Act 1958.
(2) A person may cut, split, fell, obtain, remove or take timber in a State forest in accordance with one or more of the following—
(a) a lease, licence, permit or authorisation made, issued, granted or otherwise provided for under this or any other Act;
(b) the regulations or regulations made under any other Act;
S. 96AA (2)(c)(d) repealed by No. 24/2024 s. 60(1).
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(e) the provisions of this Act relating to the collection of firewood for domestic use (sections 57O to 57ZF).
S. 96AA(3) substituted by No. 24/2024 s. 60(2).
(3) Subsections (1) and (1A) apply to any timber in a State forest whether or not that timber is owned by or vested in the Crown.
S. 96AA(3A) inserted by No. 24/2024 s. 25(2).
(3A) A proceeding for an offence against subsection (1A) may be commenced not later than 3 years after the date on which the offence is alleged to have been committed.
S. 96AA(4) repealed by No. 24/2024 s. 60(3).
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S. 96A inserted by No. 48/2004 s. 124, amended by No. 24/2024 s. 26.