Forest Practices (Private Timber Reserves Validation) Act 1999. Country/Territory Australia Territorial subdivision Tasmania Document type Legislation Date 1999 (1999) Source FAO, FAOLEX Long titleAn Act to validate certain private timber reserves and private timber reserve applications. Subject Forestry Keyword Forest management/forest conservation Private forest Geographical area Asia and the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Indian Ocean, Oceania, South Pacific Abstract This Act, consisting of 6 sections, establishes under section 4 that any land that, before the commencement day, was declared or purportedly declared as a private timber reserve by the Governor under section 11(1) of the Forest Practices Act 1985 is taken to have been validly declared as a private timber reserve under and for the purposes of that Act."A power or function that a person exercised or performed or purportedly exercised or performed before the commencement day in relation to an application, pursuant to a delegation or purported delegation by the Forest Practices Board, is taken to have been validly exercised or performed by that person as a delegate of the Board". Full text English Website www.thelaw.tas.gov.au