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National Forests Act, 1998 (Act No. 84 of 1998)

Chapter 9 : General And Transitional Provisions

Part 2 : Repeal and amendment of laws, savings, short title and commencement

77. Repeal of section 4 of Act 128 of 1992

 

(1) Section 4 of the Management of State Forests Act, 1992, is repealed.

 

(2) Agreements entered into in terms of section 4 which are valid at the commencement of this Act continue on the same terms subject to the following:
(a) The right of access referred to in sections 19 and 20 of this Act applies to State forests to which such agreements relate.
(b) The South African Forestry Company Limited does not own or have a right to acquire ownership or ninety-nine year leasehold of any State forest.
(c) The parties may amend the existing agreements or enter into a new agreement or agreements replacing the existing agreements, save that any right to use a State forest in terms of a new agreement must be granted in terms of Chapter 4.
(d) The South African Forestry Company Limited is deemed to be licensed under section 23 to carry on the activities allowed by the existing agreements for as long as the agreements remain in force.
(e) No license fee is payable by the South African Forestry Company Limited as a result of paragraph (d) if it pays rent in terms of the existing agreements.
(f) Powers and duties of the Director-General in terms of the Forest Act, 1984, (Act No. 122 of 1984), and the regulations made in terms of that Act, which have been delegated or assigned to the South African Forestry Company Limited in terms of the existing agreements and which—
(i) exist under a corresponding provision in this Act, are deemed to have been delegated or assigned to the South African Forestry Company Limited under section 47 or 48;
(ii) do not exist under a corresponding provision in this Act, no longer vest in the South African Forestry Company Limited.