109Sustainable Forests (Timber) Repeal Act 2024—Regulations dealing with transitional matters

109 Sustainable Forests (Timber) Repeal Act 2024—Regulations dealing with transitional matters

(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations containing provisions of a transitional nature, including matters of an application or savings nature, arising as a result of the enactment of the Sustainable Forests (Timber) Repeal Act 2024 (including the repeals and amendments made by that Act).

(2) Regulations made under this section may—

(a) have a retrospective effect to a day on or from the day on which the Sustainable Forests (Timber) Repeal Act 2024 receives the Royal Assent; and

(b) be of limited or general application; and

(c) leave any matter or thing to be decided by a specified person or class of person; and

(d) provide for the exemption of persons or things or classes of persons or things from any of the regulations made under this section.

(3) Regulations made under this section have effect despite anything to the contrary in any Act (other than this Act or the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006) or in any subordinate instrument.

(4) This section is repealed on the second anniversary of the day on which it comes into operation.

Schedules

Sch. 1 repealed by No. 38/2021 s. 15(2).

Ss 3, 42.

Sch. 2 substituted by Nos 6976 s. 7(1)(k), 7228 s. 7(Sch. 4 Pt 12(d)), 10087 s. 3(1)(Sch. 1 item 90).

Second Schedule—Reserved forests

The areas of Crown lands delineated by projections bearing a distinguishing colour or shading on maps—

(a) sealed with the seal of the Board of Land and Works before 15 March 1965;

(b) signed by the Minister of Lands on or after 15 March 1965 and before 1 September 1983; or

(c) signed by the Minister for Conservation, Forests and Lands on or after 1 September 1983—

and deposited with the Clerk of the Parliaments and described—

(d) where the maps were sealed and deposited before 18 December 1962—as permanent forests or as timber reserves; or

(e) in any other case—as reserved forests.

Sch. 3 repealed by No. 6976 s. 7(1)(l), new Sch. 3 inserted by No. 82/1990 s. 5, amended by GG 16.1.97 p. 128, repealed by No. 48/2004 s. 109(c), new Sch. 3 inserted by No. 46/2021 s. 9, amended by No. 26/2023 s. 27.

Third Schedule