Western Australia

Sandalwood Act 1929

Reprinted as at 4 January 2002

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Sandalwood Act 1929

CONTENTS

1.Short title1

2.Power to limit quantity1

3.Licenses1

4.Regulations2

5.Meaning of “sandalwood”3

Notes

Compilation table4

Reprinted under the Reprints Act 1984 as at 4 January 2002

Western Australia

Sandalwood Act 1929

An Act to regulate the quantity of sandalwood to be pulled or removed from Crown and other land.

1.Short title

This Act may be cited as the Sandalwood Act 1929 1, and shall be read as one with the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

[Section 1 amended by No. 74 of 1996 s. 3.]

2.Power to limit quantity

The Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council, limit and restrict the quantity of sandalwood, other than sandalwood grown on a plantation, that may be pulled or removed from Crown land and alienated land during a period therein stated.

[Section 2 amended by No. 74 of 1996 s. 4.]

3.Licenses

(1)No person shall pull or remove sandalwood — 

(a)from Crown land, except under a license granted pursuant to regulations under the principal Act; or

(b)from alienated land, unless such person (being the grantee or lessee thereof, or a person lawfully claiming under him) is authorised to do so by a license in the prescribed form granted to him by the Executive Director under this Act.

Penalty: $200.

(1a)Subsection (1)(b) does not apply to sandalwood grown on a plantation.

(2)Licenses shall not be granted under subsection (1)(b) to authorise the pulling or removal of sandalwood in any quantity exceeding in the aggregate 10% of the total quantity as determined for the time being by Order in Council under section 2.

(3)The granting of licenses under subsection (1)(b) shall be in the order of priority of application, and the allocation to each licensee of the quantity of sandalwood to be pulled or removed under license shall be determined by the Minister.

(4)In this section the words “alienated land” mean and include any land granted by the Crown for an estate in fee simple and any land held on conditional purchase or other lease or tenure under the provisions of the Land Administration Act 1997, or the Mining Act 1904 2, but shall not include any land granted or demised subject to the reservation to the Crown of sandalwood thereon.

[Section 3 amended by No. 113 of 1965 s. 8; No. 74 of 1996 s. 5; No. 59 of 2000 s. 51.]

4.Regulations

The Governor may make regulations under the principal Act for the purposes of this Act, and by such regulations may (subject to such conditions as are prescribed) exempt from this Act any land in process of clearing for agricultural purposes.

5.Meaning of “sandalwood”

For the purposes of this Act the word “sandalwood” means and includes the wood of any tree of the genera Santalum or Fusanus, and any other species of aromatic wood which is or may be used as a substitute for sandalwood.

[Section 5 inserted by No. 13 of 1934 s. 2.]

Notes

1This reprint is a compilation as at 4 January 2002 of the Sandalwood Act 1929 and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table. The table also contains information about any previous reprint.

Compilation table

Short title	Number and year	Assent	Commencement
Sandalwood Act 1929	27 of 1929	5 Dec 1929	5 Dec 1929
Sandalwood Act Amendment Act 1930	43 of 1930	22 Dec 1930	22 Dec 1930
Sandalwood Act Amendment Act 1934	13 of 1934	26 Nov 1934	26 Nov 1934
Reprint of the Sandalwood Act 1929 approved 16 May 1958 in Volume 13 of Reprinted Acts (includes amendments listed above)
Decimal Currency Act 1965	113 of 1965	21 Dec 1965	s. 4-9: 14 Feb 1966 (see s. 2(2)); balance: 21 Dec 1965
Reprint of the Sandalwood Act 1929 approved 14 Jul 1971 (includes amendments listed above)
Sandalwood Amendment Act 1996	74 of 1996	13 Nov 1996	11 Dec 1996
Land Administration Amendment Act 2000 s. 51	59 of 2000	7 Dec 2000	10 Apr 2001 (see s. 2(2) and Gazette 10 Apr 2001 p. 2073)

2Repealed by the Mining Act 1978.

By Authority: JOHN A. STRIJK, Government Printer