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Forests Amendment Bill 1999

Contents

• Explanatory Note
  • General Policy Statement
• Clause by Clause Analysis
  • Part 1 - Amendements to Principal Act
  • Part 2 - Transitional Provisions

• Forests Amendment Bill 1999

ANALYSIS

    1.Short Title and commencement

PART 1

Amendments to Principal Act

    2.Interpretation

    3.New sections substituted

67A.This Part binds the Crown

67AA.Part does not permit felling or harvesting other than in accordance with relevant enactment

    4.Prohibition on export of certain indigenous forest produce

    5.Prohibition on milling indigenous timber

    6.New sections and heading inserted

67DA.Forests on specified Maori land to which sawmill controls apply

Felling Controls

67DB.Prohibition on felling indigenous timber

    7.Sustainable forest management plans

    8.Procedure for approval of sustainable forest management plans

    9.Notice requirements

    10.Secretary's power to require amendments to plans

    11.Other provisions relating to review and amendment of sustainable forest management plans

    12.Sustainable forest management plan to be recorded against certificate of title

    13.Sustainable forest management permits

    14.Records

    15.Powers of entry and seizure

    16.Offences

    17.Relationship of Part with Resource Management Act 1991

PART 2

Transitional Provisions

    18.Interpretation

    19.This Part binds the Crown

Transitional Provision for Export of Timber

    20.Transitional provision for export of indigenous timber from West Coast indigenous production forests

Transitional Provisions for Milling of Timber

    21.Transitional provision for milling of timber from West Coast indigenous production forests

    22.Application of sections 23 and 24 to affected forests

    23.Transitional provisions to apply for fixed time or fixed harvest

    24.Establishment of total allowable harvest

    25.Compensation

    26.Power to specify criteria and method of assessment in relation to payment of assistance

    27.Variation of Schedule

    28.Revocation of clause 4 of Customs Export Prohibition Order 1996

    29.Relationship of Part with Resource Management Act 1991

• SCHEDULE List of Affected Forests

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Contact for Enquiries

Policy Analyst - Forestry
Innovation and Research
MAF Policy
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
PO Box 2526
Wellington
NEW ZEALAND

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