Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Land shall cease
to be State forest only by virtue of an Act or in the manner provided for in
subsection (2).
(1a) The purpose, or
combination of purposes, notified in respect of a State forest under
section 60(3)(a) or 60A cannot be amended except by virtue of an Act or
in the manner provided for in subsection (2).
(2) The Governor may
cause to be laid before each House of Parliament a proposal that —
(a) land
comprising the whole or part of a State forest shall cease to be State forest;
or
(b) the
purpose, or combination of purposes, notified in respect of a State forest
under section 60(3)(a) or 60A be amended,
and if a resolution is
passed by each House that the proposal be carried out, the Governor shall, by
order published in the Gazette , declare the land to be no longer a State
forest, or declare the amendment to be in operation, as the case may require.
(3) On the making of
an order declaring that land is no longer a State forest, the land
shall —
(a) in
the case of land acquired under section 15 and set apart as a State
forest, become vested in the CEO and section 131 shall apply to it; and
(b) in
any other case, become Crown land within the meaning of the Land
Administration Act 1997 .
[Section 9 amended by No. 20 of 1991
s. 8; No. 31 of 1997 s. 141; No. 28 of 2006 s. 209.]