✨ Timber Emergency Regulations
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 100
“Timber materials” means any materials, or goods capable
of being used in or for the purposes of the business of any
proprietor; and includes timber and manufactured timber
products; and also includes any tools, machinery, plant,
or equipment capable of being used in or for the purposes
of any such business; and also includes any patent rights
relating to any timber materials:
“Owner” in relation to any timber materials, includes any
person having the timber materials in his possession or
control or on order by him.
REGULATION 2.—TIMBER CONTROLLER.
(1) The Minister may from time to time appoint a Controller,
to be known as “the Timber Controller.”
(2) The Controller shall hold office during the pleasure of the
Minister.
(3) The Controller shall be subject in all things to the control of
the Minister, and shall act in accordance with all directions, general
or special, given to him by the Minister.
(4) The general functions of the Controller shall be to exercise
control over the manufacture and distribution of timber and manu-
factured timber products in the public interest, and for that purpose
to determine the precedence and order of emergency of such manu-
facture and distribution and to exercise control over the supply of
materials and spare parts which proprietors may require.
REGULATION 3.—CONTROL OF FORESTS.
(1) Except with the precedent consent of the Controller, no person
shall—
(a) Sell or contract for the sale of any forest; or
(b) Purchase or contract for the purchase of any forest; or
(c) Grant or contract to grant a lease or demise of any forest; or
(d) Accept or contract to accept a lease or demise of any forest ; or
(e) Grant or contract to grant any profit à prendre or license to fell
standing timber; or
(f) Accept or contract to accept any profit à prendre or license to
fell standing timber.
(2) The provisions of the last preceding clause shall not apply to
any dealing with land, including forest, unless the land is covered with
standing trees to such an extent as not to be immediately and sub-
stantially available for agricultural or grazing purposes, nor to any
demise or lease of land including forest or any contract therefor under
which the lessee is not permitted to fell standing timber except for
use or consumption on the premises.
(3) The Controller may, by notice in writing to any person, direct
that person to sell his estate and interest, or any specified portion of
his estate or interest, in any forest to such proprietors as the Controller
may nominate, the price and payment to be settled by arbitration
as provided by the provisions of the principal regulations relating to
payment for supplies and services, and all other terms of sale to be
such as the Controller may deem equitable.
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