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No. 11 of 1920.
[Originally No. 11 of 1920.]
Short title.
Regulations.
Penalty and forfeiture.
PLANTS.
No. 11 of 1920.
An Ordinance to provide for the protection of trees, shrubs and other plants.
[19th November, 1920.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Plants Ordinance, 1920.
2.--(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make such regulations as he shall think expedient for the purpose of protecting trees, shrubs, and other plants from destruction, injury, or removal.
(2) In any such regulations the onus of proof may be thrown upon the defendant in any case in which the Governor in Council may think proper.
(3) All regulations 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 regulations, and if a resolution is passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded, or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded, or amended, as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.
3.--(1) Every person who contravenes any regulation made under this Ordinance shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
(2) It shall be lawful for a magistrate to forfeit any severed plant or portion of a plant with regard to which any contravention of any such regulation shall have been committed.
No. 12 of 1920, incorporated in No. 4 of 1897.