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FOREST PROPERTY ACT 2000 - SECT 3

3—Interpretation

In this Act—

"carbon right"—see section 3A;

"Court" means the Supreme Court or the District Court;

"encumbrance" means—

            (a)         a life estate or a lease; or

            (b)         a mortgage, charge or encumbrance securing a monetary obligation;

"forest vegetation" means trees and other forms of forest vegetation including—

            (a)         roots or other parts of the trees or other forest vegetation that lie beneath the soil; and

            (b)         leaves, branches or other parts or products of trees or other forest vegetation;

"forest property agreement"—see section 5;

"owner" of land means—

            (a)         the owner of an estate in fee simple in the land; or

            (b)         a person who holds a leasehold estate in land from the Crown;

"registered" means—

            (a)         in relation to a forest property agreement relating to land alienated in fee simple from the Crown—

                  (i)         if the land has been brought under the Real Property Act 1886 —registered under that Act or noted on the certificate of title to the land; or

                  (ii)         if the land has not been brought under the Real Property Act 1886 —registered under the Registration of Deeds Act 1935 ;

            (b)         in relation to a forest property agreement relating to land subject to a Crown lease—registered or noted in the Register of Crown Leases;

"relevant registration law" means—

            (a)         in relation to an agreement or transaction registered (or to be registered) under the Real Property Act 1886 —the Real Property Act 1886 ;

            (b)         in relation to an agreement or transaction registered (or to be registered) under the Registration of Deeds Act 1935 —the Registration of Deeds Act 1935 .



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