Section 12
Section 12
(1)
After consideration of the documents received under section 10 of this Enactment, the
Yang di-Pertua Negeri may, by notice in the Gazette, declare the whole or any part of the land specified in a notice of intention to be a Forest Reserve.
(2)
A reservation notice shall –
(a)
specify the land to be included in the Forest Reserve and the class or classes of the Forest Reserve;
(b)
set forth the rights and the privileges which the Yang di-Pertua Negeri thinks it just to admit or concede within the Forest Reserve, or any portion thereof, to any person or group of persons;
(c)
set forth the special conditions, if any, which may be attached to the reservation;
(d)
specify a date, not being earlier than fourteen days after the publication of such notice, upon which it shall come into operation.
(3)
From the date specified in a reservation notice, the land specified therein shall be a Forest Reserve and shall, together with all the produce thereof and things found therein, be the property of the State, subject only to the admitted rights and conceded privileges.
(4)
Where any rights are admitted or privileges are conceded in a Forest Reserve –
(a)
the reservation notice shall prescribe, as far as possible, the quantity, whether by reference to the amount or the number of persons or groups of persons who may exercise any such right or privilege, and the type of any forest produce which may be taken or received in the exercise of such right or privilege;
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(b)
the exercise of any such right or privilege shall be subject to the control of the
Chief Conservator and to such orders as he may from time to time make to regulate the manner in which and, with the approval of the Minister, the local limits within which, such right or privilege may be exercised.
(5)
Before the date upon which a reservation notice comes into force, the District Officer or Collector of the District in which the Forest Reserve is situated shall cause the substance of such notice to be published in the same manner as that prescribed for the publication of a notice under section 8 of this
Enactment.
(6)
Save as otherwise expressly provided by this Enactment, as from the date when a reservation notice comes into force, all rights and privileges other than admitted rights or conceded privileges shall be extinguished.
(7)
Any person who exercises any admitted right or conceded privilege in contravention of, or otherwise than in compliance with, any order made by the Chief Conservator under subsection (4) of this section shall be guilty of an offence.