Forest consent areas - Queensland

A forest consent area is created when the lessee of a State land lease that is approved to be converted under the Land Act 1994 to freehold, and the chief executive for the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, enter into a forest consent agreement that identified an area as a forest consent area. The State retains ownership of the commercial timber on a forest consent area, as the ownership of the commercial timber is separate from the ownership of the freehold land. The forest consent agreement between the State and the landholder is registered as a profit a prendre on the title of the land and results in obligations and rights with regard to the forest consent area and the land on which the forest consent area is located, for both the State and for the landholder. The registered agreement will continue and transfer with the land if the land is sold or transferred to another party. A forest consent area and a forest consent agreement, as well as the contained forest products, are administered by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries under the Forestry Act 1959.