Section 30
Section 30
Any person who, without lawful authority or legal right –
(a)
makes upon or fixes to any forest produce any property mark, or any mark authorised by the rules for use by any forest officer;
(b)
alters, defaces or destroys any such mark or has in his possession any instrument or implement for making, counterfeiting or altering any such mark;
(c)
issues or purports to issue any licence;
(d)
alters, defaces or counterfeits any licence or other document lawfully issued or made under
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the provisions of this Enactment or of any rule or order made thereunder;
(e)
in any Forest Reserve or on State land covers any tree stump or any evidence of the extraction of forest produce with brushwood or earth or by any other means whatsoever conceals, destroys or removes, or attempts to conceal, destroy or remove, such stump or evidence or any part thereof;
(f)
alters, removes or destroys or defaces or otherwise injures any boundary mark or survey beacon appertaining to a Forest Reserve or to any land specified in a notice of intention;
(g)
keeps or has in his possession, custody or control of any forest produce –
(i)
which bears any property mark;
(ii)
which was involved in any forest offence; or
(iii)
upon which the royalty or other payments due in respect thereof has not been paid or made;
(h)
wears, otherwise than for the purpose of a bona fide theatrical performance, any uniform or part of a uniform, or any badge or other identifying mark which has been issued by the Forests
Department for the use of forest officers or other employees of that Department, or which so resembles such uniform, badge or mark as to make it appears that such person is a forest officer or other employee of the Forests Department, shall be guilty of an offence.
(2)
Any person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) shall on conviction be liable –
(a)
if the offence is under paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), or (f) of subsection (1), to a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand ringgit and to imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than one year but shall not exceed twenty years;
(b)
if the offence is under paragraph (g) of subsection (1), to a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to both such fine and imprisonment; and
(c)
if the offence is under paragraph (h) of subsection (1), to a fine not exceeding ten thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both such fine and imprisonment.