Western Australian Current Acts

CONSERVATION AND LAND MANAGEMENT ACT 1984 - SECT 128

128 .         Regulations as to forestry, State forests etc.

        (1)         The regulations may provide for —

            (a)         the organization of a system of education and training in scientific forestry;

            (b)         the organization and establishment of a forest produce research laboratory and matters connected therewith;

            (c)         the protection of trees in parks and reserves under the control and management of a board under the Parks and Reserves Act 1895 and for the regulation or prohibition of the cutting or removal of such trees and other forest produce;

            (d)         the protection, management and control of State forests and timber reserves, and flora and fauna therein, including provision as to —

                  (i)         the sale of forest produce by auction or tender; and

                  (ii)         a system for recording, making available, and otherwise dealing with information concerning forest produce taken and the destination thereof; and

                  (iii)         a system for recording, making available, and otherwise dealing with information for the purposes of ascertaining forest produce charges payable; and

                  (iv)         the inspection, grading, branding and marking of forest produce; and

        [(v)         deleted]

                  (vi)         the authority of forest officers to give directions as to the route for the movement of forest produce in a State forest or timber reserve or to stop or detain forest produce therein or on any road; and

                  (vii)         the weighing of forest produce or the use of any other method to determine the quantity of forest produce; and

                  (viii)         the identification of persons who fell timber in State forests and timber reserves and the registration of the means of identification; and

                  (ix)         the taking of firewood from State forests and timber reserves;

            (e)         the prohibition or regulation of the export of any specified kind of forest produce;

            (f)         the maintenance of Government timber depots and the terms and conditions for the use thereof;

            (g)         the identification, by branding or otherwise, of timber and the registration of the means of identification;

            (ga)         the registration of, and information relating to, persons who are engaged —

                  (i)         in the harvesting of timber in State forests or timber reserves (including the doing of any thing normally required to be done to timber before removal therefrom); or

                  (ii)         in the transport of harvested timber,

                or who are proposed to be so engaged, and the creation of offences for the purpose of ensuring that any such system of registration is effective;

            (h)         for the purposes of section 26(2)(b), of the Mining Act 1978 , the conditions and restrictions applicable to the marking out of mining tenements in State forests and timber reserves.

        (2)         In this section State forests includes land to which section 131 applies.

        [Section 128 amended: No. 20 of 1991 s. 54; No. 66 of 1992 s. 17; No. 35 of 2000 s. 45.]