Section 2
In this Enactment, unless the context otherwise requires –
“admitted right” means a right admitted in respect of a Forest Reserve by a reservation notice;
“alienated lands” means any land in respect of which a registered title for the time being subsists under any written law relating to land title registration, land tenure or mining, or which has become in any manner vested in any person or authority other than the State;
“authorised officer” means the Chief Conservator, the Deputy Chief Conservator, any Conservator of
Forests, any Assistant Conservator of Forests, and any other forest officer and any other Honorary
Forest Ranger designated for the purposes of the provision concerned by the Minister by notice in the
Gazette‡;
“Collector” shall have the same meaning as in the Land Ordinance [Cap. 68];
“conceded privilege” means a privilege conceded in respect of a Forest Reserve by a reservation notice;
"Chief Conservator" means the Chief Conservator of Forests appointed under section 3;
“Yang di-Pertua Negeri" substituted for "Yang di-Pertua Negara" by virtue of Enactment No. 17 of1976.
† In force 1st January, 1969 - see G.N.5. 16/1969.
‡ See G.N. 622/1969
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“Deputy Chief Conservator” means the Deputy Chief Conservator of Forests appointed under section 3;
“Director” [Deleted by En.2 of 2016]
“forest offence” means any offence against any of the provisions of this Enactment or of the rules;
“forest officer” means any person appointed under the said section 3;
“forest produce” means -
(a)
timber, converted timber, wood chip, saw dust, oil, carving, firewood, charcoal, getah, gaharu, wood oil, bark, extracts of bark, copal, damar and atap found in or brought from a Forest Reserve, State land or alienated land;
(b)
the following when found in or brought from a Forest Reserve or State land –
(i)
trees and any produce thereof, silk, cocoons, honey and wax; or
(ii)
carbon stored in trees or plants;
(c)
all vegetable and animal matters and products other than animals and animal products which are subject to the provisions of the Wildlife Conservation Enactment 1997
[Enactment No. 6/1997], and all minerals and mineral substances other than mineral oil and minerals and mineral substances which are subject to the provisions of the Mining
Ordinance 1960 [Ordinance No. 20/1960] found in or brought from a Forest Reserve or
State land;
(d)
imported timber;
“Forest Reserve” means a Forest Reserve declared as such under section 12 of this Enactment;
“forest right” means an admitted right and a right contained in a licence or licence agreement;
“gaharu” includes any products derived from Aquilaria spp.;
“licence” means a licence issued under section 24 of this Enactment;
“licence agreement” means a licence agreement entered into under section 15 of this Enactment;
“livestock” includes asses, buffaloes, bulls, cows, elephants, geldings, goats, horses, stallions, mares, mules, oxen, pigs, ponies, sheep and steers, and the young thereof;
“member of the armed forces” means any member of the armed forces not below the rank of Lance
Corporal;
“Minister” means the Minister for the time being responsible for matters relating to natural resources;
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“notice of intention” means a notice published under section 6 of this Enactment;
“occupier” means the person in actual occupation of land regardless of his title, if any, to such land;
“permit” means a permit issued under section 24E of this Enactment;
“property mark” means a mark, placed on forest produce to denote its ownership or origin or any agency by which it has been handled, and registered under the rules;
“reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation-plus (REDD+)” means positive incentives and approach to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and the role of conservation, sustainable forest management and enhancement of forest carbon stocks;
“reservation notice” means a notice declaring land to be a Forest Reserve, issued under subsection
(1)
of section 12 of this Enactment as amended or modified by any notice affecting that Reserve made under section 13 or section 14 of this Enactment;
“the rules” means any rules made under section 42 of this Enactment;
“State land” means all land in the State other than a Forest Reserve or alienated land;
“timber” means any tree which has been felled or which has fallen, and any part of any tree which has been cut, or has fallen off, and all round, sawn, split or hewn wood, and any wood which has been hollowed or fashioned into boats or boat shape;
“tree” includes any tree, shrub or bush of any kind, seedling, sapling or re-shoot of any age, root, stump, stem, branch, leaf, palm, cane, climber or creeper, and any part of any of those.
Appointment of officers.