An Act to provide for management and conservation of forests in Tasmania. The text is divided into 4 Parts: Preliminary (I); Forestry Corporation (II); State forest and forest reserves (III); Forest management plans (IIIA); Miscellaneous (IV). The Forestry Corporation is established under section 6. The Corporation has the following functions: (a) the development, control and delivery of a land use policy for State forest and a sustainable forest management and forest produce production policy; (b) the development, control and delivery of the commercial policy of the corporation; (c) the exclusive management and control of all State forest and, if the Director-General of Lands consents, forests on other Crown land and all forest products on State forest and on other Crown land; (d) the establishment and tending of forests, and all forest operations, on State forest and on other Crown land (e) the granting of all permits, licences, forest leases and other occupation rights, and the making of all contracts of sale, under this Act; (f) the conservation of flora and fauna; (g) the conservation of landforms; etc. (sect. 8) The Corporation shall cause a classification of the forest lands of the State to be made for the purpose of determining which of such lands are suitable to be dedicated as State forest or as forest reserve (sect. 13). State forest or reserves may be proclaimed by the Governor. The Corporation must maintain the Register of Multiple Use Forest Land (sect. 17). It may prepare forest management plans in accordance with this Part for any area of State forest, the whole or any part of a forest reserve, or for any area of Crown land that is subject to a forestry right (sect. 22B).
أستراليا · 1920-12-24