Victorian Numbered Acts

SUSTAINABLE FORESTS (TIMBER) ACT 2004 (NO 48 OF 2004) - SECT 3

In this Act—

"allocation order" means an order made in accordance with Part 3;

"approved timber release plan" means a timber release plan approved by the Secretary in accordance with Part 5;

"authorised officer" has the same meaning as it has in section 3 of the Conservation, Forests and Lands Act 1987 ;

"Code of Practice" has the same meaning as it has in section 3 of the Conservation, Forests and Lands Act 1987 ;

"coupe" means a specific area of State forest identified for the purposes of timber harvesting and regeneration in a timber release plan;

"forest stand" means a group of trees within a State forest that share common characteristics relating to eucalypt species composition and age;

"managed licence" means a transferred agreement, transferred licence (east) or transferred licence (west) which VicForests administers, manages and enforces under Part 4;

"Minister for Agriculture" means the Minister administering the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Control of Use) Act 1992 ;
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"principles of ecologically sustainable development" means the principles set out in section 5;

"Secretary" means the body corporate established by Part 2 of the Conservation, Forests and Lands Act 1987 ;

"State forest" has the same meaning as it has in the Forests Act 1958 ;

"suspension notice" means a notice issued under section 71 ;

"timber harvesting operations" means any of the following kinds of activities carried out by VicForests or by any other person or body for the purposes of sale or processing and sale—

        (a)     felling or cutting of trees or parts of trees;

        (b)     taking or removing timber;

        (c)     delivering timber to a buyer or transporting timber to a place for collection by a buyer or sale to a buyer;

        (d)     any works, including road works, ancillary to any of the activities referred to in paragraphs (a) to (c)—

but does not include—

        (e)     those activities when undertaken by or on behalf of the Crown or the Secretary; or

        (f)     the collection of firewood for domestic use;

"timber harvesting operator's licence" means a licence issued under Division 2 of Part 6;

"timber release plan" means a plan prepared by VicForests in accordance with Part 5;

"timber resources" means timber from the trees or parts of trees which are specified as available for timber harvesting in an allocation order but does not include firewood collected for domestic use;

"transferred agreement" means—

        (a)     the agreement entered into pursuant to section 21 of the Forests Act 1958 between the Secretary and Harris Daishowa (Australia) Pty Ltd, ACN 000 604 795 and dated 29 September 1997, as amended from time to time in accordance with its terms;

        (b)     an agreement entered into pursuant to section 21 of the Forests Act 1958 to which an order under section 35 applies;

"transferred licence (east)" means a licence or permit granted under section 52 of the Forests Act 1958 in respect of the east of the State of Victoria—

        (a)     specified in Schedule 1 and in existence immediately before the commencement of that Schedule; or

        (b)     to which an order under section 35 applies;

"transferred licence (west)" means a licence or permit granted under section 52 of the Forests Act 1958 in respect of the west of the State of Victoria—

        (a)     specified in Schedule 2 and in existence immediately before the commencement of that Schedule; or

        (b)     to which an order under section 35 applies;

"vested timber resources" means timber resources vested in VicForests under section 42;

"VicForests" has the same meaning as it has in the Conservation, Forests and Lands Act 1987 .