Section 20

of Forest Enactment 1968

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Section 20

(1)

Unless expressly authorised by or under the provisions of this Enactment –

(a)

any person who –

(i)

girdles, marks, lops, taps or injures by fire or otherwise any forest produce;

(ii)

negligently causes any damage in felling any tree or in cutting, extracting or removing any forest produce;

(iii)

kindles or causes to be kindled or carries any fire, or throws down any lighted match or other lighted material, in a Forest Reserve shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for seven years and a fine;

(b)

any person who –

(i)

erects or constructs any building or livestock enclosure;

(ii)

depastures livestock or causes or permits any livestock to be;

(iii)

cultivates any land or clears or digs up any land for cultivation or for any other purpose, in any Forest Reserve shall be guilty of an offence;

(c)

any person who –

(i)

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(ii)

damages, alters, shifts, removes, or interferes in any way whatsoever with, any fence or notice board in a Forest Reserve, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both such fine and imprisonment.

(2)

Unless expressly authorised by or under the provisions of this Enactment, any person who cuts, collects, converts, fells, or removes any forest produce in a Forest Reserve shall be guilty of an offence and on conviction shall be punished with a fine not less than twenty thousand ringgit but not exceeding five million ringgit and to imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than two years but shall not exceed twenty years.

(3)

Any person convicted of an offence under this section may, in addition to any penalty imposed on the conviction, be ordered to pay, in respect of any forest produce unlawfully taken, to the

Government –

(a)

a sum not exceeding ten times the royalty, fee and other sum due;

(b)

a sum not exceeding ten times the value of such forest produce; and

(c)

any other charges payable, and any sum ordered to be so paid shall be recoverable as if it were a fine so imposed.

Building, etc., in Forest Reserve.

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