4Definitions

4 Definitions

4 Definitions

(1) In this Act—

authorised officer means a person appointed under section 61.

authorised plantation means a plantation or proposed plantation authorised for the time being under this Act.

authorised timber plantation means an authorised plantation that is authorised under this Act as a timber plantation.

Code means the Plantations and Reafforestation Code made under Part 3 and in force for the time being.

complying plantation—see section 13.

Crown-timber lands has the same meaning as in the Forestry Act 2012.

Department means the Department of Regional NSW.

establishment operations means (subject to subsection (2)) activities carried out for the purpose of establishing a plantation, for example, the clearing of land, the use of pesticides, herbicides and fertilisers and the provision of access roads in establishing a plantation, and the planting of trees or shrubs.

exempt farm forestry—see section 6.

harvesting operations means (subject to subsection (2)) the cutting and removal of timber from a plantation for the purpose of timber production, including the provision of access roads after establishment of a plantation to enable or assist the cutting and removal of timber or the carrying out of such other activities as are necessary for the efficient cutting and removal of timber.

management operations means (subject to subsection (2)) the carrying out of activities relating to the on-going management of a plantation (for example, silvicultural thinning, weed control, grazing, the maintenance of access roads and similar maintenance operations). Management operations includes any harvesting of timber that does not exceed the maximum amount of harvesting permitted by the Code for management operations.

manager of a plantation or proposed plantation means the person in charge of plantation operations on the plantation or proposed plantation.

owner of a plantation or proposed plantation includes—

(a) an owner or lessee of the land comprising the plantation or proposed plantation, or

(b) in the case of a plantation or proposed plantation that is a State forest or other Crown-timber lands under the management of the Forestry Corporation—the Forestry Corporation, or

(c) a person who has a forestry right (within the meaning of section 87A of the Conveyancing Act 1919) in relation to the plantation or proposed plantation.