Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations In these regulations,
unless the contrary intention appears —
bush landing , in relation to log timber, means
the place in a State forest or timber reserve where the timber is first loaded
onto a vehicle for transport or removal after the timber has been felled;
buyer , in relation to log timber, means the buyer
of that timber under a contract of sale;
contract of sale means a contract under
section 88(1)(b)(i) of the Act in which the CEO contracts with any person
for the sale of forest produce on or from Crown land;
contract to harvest and deliver means a contract
under section 88(1)(b)(ii) of the Act in which the CEO contracts with any
person for that person to harvest log timber on Crown land and to deliver that
timber to the buyer;
contractor , in relation to a contract to harvest
and deliver, means the person contracting with the CEO under that contract;
coupe means an area in a State forest or timber
reserve that is set aside for the purpose of logging in a logging plan;
Crown land has the same meaning as in
section 87 of the Act;
district means a district designated by the CEO
for the administrative purposes of the Department;
fell includes fell by machine;
feller’s identification code means an
identification code registered in respect of a feller under
regulation 26;
forest produce licence means a licence granted by
the CEO under section 88(1)(a) of the Act to take forest produce on or
from Crown land;
log delivery note means a log delivery note
referred to in Part 5;
logging plan means a plan formulated by the
Department for the logging of timber in State forests and timber reserves in a
district;
manager , in relation to a sawmill, means a person
having the immediate charge and direction of operations at a sawmill;
owner , in relation to private land, means any
person who is registered as the proprietor of an estate in fee simple in that
land;
owner , in relation to a sawmill, means any person
who is the proprietor, lessee or occupier of the sawmill and includes a person
in occupation under contract with the owner or under a subcontract;
owner’s identification code means an
identification code registered in respect of the owner or owners of private
land under regulation 29;
permit means a permit granted by the CEO under
section 88(1)(a) of the Act to take forest produce on or from Crown land;
private land means land other than public land;
product type , in relation to log timber, means
the description, classification and grade (being a description, classification
and grade specified in a log delivery note) assigned to that log timber in the
log delivery note for the timber;
public land has the same meaning as in
section 81 of the Act;
receival record means a record referred to in Part
8;
repealed Act means the Forests Act 1918
repealed by section 147 of the Conservation and Land Management
Act 1984 ;
repealed regulations means —
(a) the
Forest Regulations 1957 repealed by regulation 153(1) 2 ; or
(b) the
Forest Diseases Regulations 1975 repealed by regulation 153(2)
2 ;
sawmill means a place where any operation for the
purpose of preparing, treating or processing timber is carried on;
softwood means timber of the class Coniferae
(Conifers);
State forest includes land to which
section 131 of the Act applies;
timber harvesting means the felling, trimming,
docking, splitting, debarking, extracting, sorting or loading of timber and
includes the supervision of any of those activities;
tree includes a tree that is dead provided the
tree is still standing;
working day means a day other than a Saturday,
Sunday, public service holiday or a bank holiday or public holiday (either
throughout the State or in the part of the State relevant to the event, act or
thing concerned).
[Regulation 2 amended in Gazette
29 Mar 1996 p. 1505; 21 Apr 1998 p. 2113;
3 May 2002 p. 2294; 3 Sep 2010 p. 4273 and 4276.]