Western Australian Numbered Acts Western Australian Numbered Acts In this Act, unless
the contrary intention appears —
"Account" means the Forest Products Account
referred to in section 42;
"CALM Act" means the Conservation and Land
Management Act 1984 ;
"CALM Act Minister" means the Minister
administering the CALM Act;
“ CALM Act sharefarming agreement ”
means a timber sharefarming agreement referred to in section 34B of the CALM
Act (not being a timber sharefarming agreement to which Schedule 1 clause 4 of
the Conservation and Land Management Amendment Act 2000 applies);
"Commission" means the Forest Products Commission
established by section 5(1);
"Commission sharefarming agreement" means a timber
sharefarming agreement under Part 7 or a timber sharefarming agreement to
which Schedule 1 clause 4 of the Conservation and Land Management Amendment
Act 2000 applies;
"commissioner" means a person who is a
commissioner under section 6(1);
"Conservation Commission" means the Conservation
Commission of Western Australia established by the CALM Act;
"Department" means the Department of Conservation
and Land Management referred to in section 32 of the CALM Act;
"departmental land" means —
(a)
State forest and timber reserves within the meaning of the CALM Act;
(b) land
that is the subject of a declaration under section 87(2) of the CALM Act;
or
(c) land
held by the Executive Director under section 131 of the CALM Act;
"Executive Director" means the Executive Director
of the Department referred to in section 36(1) of the CALM Act;
"firewood" does not include firewood that, under
the CALM Act —
(a) may
be removed by members of the public from an area set aside under that Act as a
public firewood area; or
(b) may
be used on a campfire or barbecue in the immediate vicinity of a camping area
or picnic area;
"forest products" has the meaning given by section
4;
"General Manager" means the person holding or
acting in the office mentioned in section 38(1);
"harvesting" means —
(a)
felling or cutting forest products;
(b)
taking or removing forest products;
(c) in
the case of felled trees, or parts of felled trees, measuring them; and
(d)
delivering forest products to a buyer or transporting forest products to a
place where they can be collected by a buyer;
"manage", in relation to forest products, includes
establish, regenerate, grow, tend (including thinning) and protect;
"production contract" has the meaning given by
section 55;
"profit", in relation to the exploitation of
forest products produced on public land, means an appropriate return to the
State for that exploitation;
"public land" means —
(a)
Crown land as defined in section 87 of the CALM Act; or
(b)
departmental land;
"relevant management plan" has the meaning given
by section 55;
"sharefarmed land" means land that is the subject
of a Commission sharefarming agreement or a CALM Act sharefarming agreement;
"staff member" means a member of the
Commission’s staff other than the General Manager (including an officer
or employee referred to in section 40(1));
"the commissioners" means the commissioners acting
as the governing body of the Commission under section 6(4);
the terms "management plan"," State
forest"," timber"," timber reserve
"and " tree "have the same meanings as they have in the CALM Act.