Western Australian Current Acts

CONSERVATION AND LAND MANAGEMENT ACT 1984 - SECT 88

88 .         Permits etc. for taking etc. forest produce, CEO’s powers as to

        (1)         Subject to this Part, the CEO may —

            (a)         grant permits and licences to take; and

            (b)         contract on such terms and conditions as the CEO thinks fit for —

                  (i)         the sale of; or

                  (ii)         the doing by any person of any other act or thing in relation to,

                forest produce on or from Crown land.

        (1a)         Without limiting the generality of subsection (1)(b)(ii), the CEO may, under that subsection, enter into a contract with any person for that person to fell, cut, prepare, take, remove or measure forest produce on or from Crown land and deliver the forest produce to a buyer under a contract of sale or move the forest produce to a place where it can be collected by a buyer under a contract of sale.

        (2)         No permit or licence shall be granted and no contract shall be entered into in respect of forest produce on any land in a State forest or timber reserve unless there is a management plan in force for that land.

        (3)         If a permit or licence granted under subsection (1) to take forest produce on or from Crown land is transferable by the permit holder or licensee, in accordance with the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Commonwealth) section 10 the definition of licence paragraph (d), the permit or licence is declared not to be personal property for the purposes of that Act.

        [Section 88 amended: No. 66 of 1992 s. 8; No. 28 of 2006 s. 209; No. 42 of 2011 s. 65.]