*[Section 3 Amended by No. 20 of 1995, s. 3 and Sched. 1 ]*In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears –
annual report means the annual report for the Authority prepared under section 32E ;
Australian Accounting Standards means Statements of Accounting Standards issued jointly by the National Councils of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants and The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia or their successors;
Authority means Private Forests Tasmania established under section 4 ;
Board means the Board of Directors of the Authority;
chairperson means the chairperson of the Board;
chief executive officer means the chief executive officer of the Authority appointed under section 16 ;
corporate plan means the corporate plan approved under section 19D ;
director means a person appointed as a director of the Board or the chief executive officer;
employee means a person appointed or employed pursuant to section 19 ;
financial statements means the financial statements prepared under section 32B ;
[Section 3 Amended by No. 116 of 2001, s. 4, Applied:24 Aug 2001]forest owners organisations means such organisations as the Minister is satisfied can properly be regarded as associations of owners of private commercial forests carried on wholly or partly for the purposes of marketing the timber obtained from those forests;
[Section 3 Amended by No. 116 of 2001, s. 4, Applied:24 Aug 2001]
forest produce means all vegetable growth and the products of growing or dead trees, shrubs, timber or other vegetable growth;
forestry dedication covenant means a covenant referred to in section 33 ;
functions includes duties and responsibilities;
industrial private forest grower means a grower of timber who is directly engaged in sawmilling or allied industries or in industries using or processing pulpwood (including the production of woodchips);
ministerial charter means the charter provided under section 19A ;
non-industrial private forest grower means a grower of timber other than an industrial private forest grower;
private commercial forestry includes all matters affecting the establishment, development or management of private commercial forests or the disposal or use of the produce of private commercial forests;
regulations means regulations made and in force under this Act;
statement of corporate intent has the meaning given by section 19F ;
timber includes the trunks and branches of trees, whether standing or not, and all wood, whether or not the same is cut up, sawn, hewn, split or otherwise fashioned;