Power of Governor in Council to declare
prohibited
areas.
Boundaries to be defined.
Notices to be placed along the boundaries.
Prohibition against
entering
prohibited
areas.
Damaging or endangering forests, etc. by fire.
Power of arrest
Second Schedule.
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(3) The amounts so apportioned shall in each case be a first charge on the land in respect of which the Crown rent or village rent upon which the apportionment was based is payable.
(4) The amounts so apportioned shall be recoverable from the respective owners whose names appear on the Crown rent roll or village rent roll respectively in the same manner in all respects as Crown rent is recoverable.
(5) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council in his discretion to remit the payment of any amount so apportioned in the case of any owner of land in the said village or area who was not resident in the said village or area at the time when the damage or destruction occurred, or who was not a party to such damage or destruction.
Prohibited Areas-Afforestation.
12.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to declare any area to be a prohibited area if he considers it desirable to do so with a view to the protection of afforestation operations.
(2) Every Order in Council made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such Order in Council, and if a resolution be passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such Order in Council has been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that such Order in Council shall be rescinded, or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said Order in Council shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded, or amended, as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.
13. Every prohibited area shall have its boundaries. marked or indicated by means of fire-barriers or otherwise.
14. Notices both in English and Chinese stating that the area in question is a prohibited area shall be placed along the boundaries at intervals not greater than four hundred and forty yards.
15. Every person who without lawful authority or excuse enters a prohibited area shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
Offences, Penalties and Forfeiture.
16. Every person who wilfully or negligently sets fire to anything, whether growing or not, in or near any forest, plantation or prohibited area, in such a manner as to damage or endanger any other thing which is growing in any forest, plantation or prohibited area shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
17. It shall be lawful for any forest officer to arrest without warrant any person whom such forest officer reason- ably suspects of having contravened any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any of the regulations made there- under or of any of the enactments specified in the Second Schedule.