Forestry Act 1967 (c. 10)

[F1 Part III E+W+S Administration and Finance

Textual Amendments

F1 Act repealed (S.) (1.4.2019) by Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018 (asp 8), s. 85(2), sch. 2 (with ss. 80, 83); S.S.I. 2019/47, reg. 2 (with transitional provisions and savings in regs. 3-22 (as amended (18.3.2021) by The Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018 (Consequential, Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/44), regs. 1(1), 11(2)(b)(3)(a)))

Advisory bodies E+W+S

37 [F2 Advisory committees]. E+W+S

[F3 (1) For the purposes of advising the appropriate forestry authority as to the performance of their functions under section 1(3) and Part II of this Act, and such other functions as the appropriate forestry authority may from time to time determine—

F4 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b) the appropriate forestry authority shall continue to maintain a regional advisory committee for each conservancy (within the meaning of Part II of this Act) in [F5 England and Wales].]

F6 (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3) The [F7 appropriate forestry authority] shall—

(a) in considering whether to refuse a felling licence under Part II of this Act, or to grant it unconditionally or subject to any conditions; and

(b) in considering whether to give felling directions under the said Part II,

take into account any advice tendered by the regional advisory committee for the conservancy in which are growing the trees to which the felling licence applied for, or the directions proposed to be given, relate.

Textual Amendments

F2 S. 37 heading substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 72(3) (with Sch. 7)

F3 S. 37(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 72(2) (with Sch. 7)

F4 S. 37(1)(a) repealed (2.3.2015) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of the Home Grown Timber Advisory Committee) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/475), art. 1(3), Sch. Pt. 1

F5 Words in s. 37(1)(b) substituted (1.4.2019) by The Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/734), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 34; S.S.I. 2019/47, reg. 2

F6 S. 37(2) repealed (2.3.2015) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of the Home Grown Timber Advisory Committee) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/475), art. 1(3), Sch. Pt. 1

F7 Words in s. 37(3) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 72(2) (with Sch. 7)

38 Composition etc. of advisory committees. E+W+S

[F8 (1) F9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(1A) The chairman and other members of each regional advisory committee shall be appointed by the appropriate forestry authority.

(1B) A chairman or member appointed under subsection F10 ... (1A) shall hold and vacate office in accordance with the terms of the instrument by which they are appointed.]

F11 (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3) Each regional advisory committee shall consist of not less than seven nor more than [F12 twelve] members, and of those members (other than the chairman) not less than four shall be persons appointed by the [F13 appropriate forestry authority] after consultation with organisations appearing to them to represent the interests of owners of woodlands and timber merchants respectively and organisations concerned with the study and promotion of forestry.

(4) F14 ... [F15 The appropriate forestry authority may pay to the members of a regional advisory committee,] such allowances as they may with the consent of the Treasury determine.

F16 (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]

Textual Amendments

F8 S. 38(1)-(1B) substituted for s. 38(1) (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 73(2) (with Sch. 7)

F9 S. 38(1) repealed (2.3.2015) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of the Home Grown Timber Advisory Committee) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/475), art. 1(3), Sch. Pt. 1

F10 Words in s. 38(1B) repealed (2.3.2015) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of the Home Grown Timber Advisory Committee) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/475), art. 1(3), Sch. Pt. 1

F11 S. 38(2) repealed (2.3.2015) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of the Home Grown Timber Advisory Committee) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/475), art. 1(3), Sch. Pt. 1

F12 Words in s. 38(3) substituted (25.9.1991) by Forestry Act 1991 (c. 43, SIF 54), ss.1, 2(2).

F13 Words in s. 38(3) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 73(3) (with Sch. 7)

F14 Words in s. 38(4) repealed (2.3.2015) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of the Home Grown Timber Advisory Committee) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/475), art. 1(3), Sch. Pt. 1

F15 Words in s. 38(4) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 73(4) (with Sch. 7)

F16 S. 38(5) omitted (1.4.2019) by virtue of The Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/734), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 35; S.S.I. 2019/47, reg. 2