New South Wales Consolidated Acts New South Wales Consolidated Acts(1916 Act, s 17)
(1) The Minister may classify Crown land for the purpose of selecting land that is suitable and desirable in the public interest to be dedicated as State forest.
(2) In classifying Crown land for any such purpose, the Minister is to ensure, to such extent as the Minister considers appropriate, that the selection of land to be dedicated as State forest will result in--(a) the promotion of effective and economic control, utilisation and management of the land for timber production and the facilitation of the economic marketing of timber and forest products, and(b) the establishment, maintenance or expansion of industry for the processing and treatment of timber and forest products, and(c) the growth and harvesting of trees for timber and forest products, and(d) the continuing protection of necessary tree cover in the public interest.
(3) The Minister is to also take into account--(a) the potential for economic timber production of any land that is of an inferior character for the purposes of agriculture or grazing but which, by appropriate treatment of the soil, would be capable of sustaining the growth of suitable commercial species of trees in plantations, and(b) such other factors as the Minister considers relevant to the establishment and proper management of State forests.
(4) Crown land need not be classified under this section in order for it to be dedicated as State forest.