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Assaulting
or resisting
Forestry.
20. Any person who assaults or resists or obstructs
or obstructing any forest officer in the execution of his duty shall be guilty
of an offence against this Ordinance.
forest officer.
Acts prohibited in forests etc.
Penalties and forfeiture.
21. Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, in any forest, plantation or prohibited area-
(a) cuts grass, removes turf or earth, rakes pine
needles;
(b) fells or lops any tree or strips off the bark or leaves
from or otherwise damages the same;
(c) trespasses or pastures cattle or permits cattle to
trespass;
(d) damages any notice, fence, fire-barrier or forestry
path,
shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
22. (1) Any person who contravenes any of the 5 of 1948, s.7. provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulation made thereunder shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for one year.
(2) It shall be lawful for a magistrate to forfeit any severed tree or plant or portion of a tree or plant with regard to which any contravention of any such provision or regulation or of any enactment specified in the Schedule shall have been committed.
Ordinance.
SCHEDULE.
Short title.
[s. 17.]
Sections, etc.
Cap. 210.
Larceny Ordinance.
Cap. 211.
Cap. 228.
Malicious Damage Ordin-
ance.
Summary Offences Ordin-
ance.
S. 16 (2); s. 17;
s. 18; S. 19; S. 20 and s. 21.
S. 16; S. 17 and
s. 18.
S. 3 (3); s. 7 (b)
and s. 8.
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