Section 9

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 23, natives whose ancestors have been, and who themselves are dependent on shifting cultivation in Sabah for subsistence, may without licence fell, burn or clear for the purpose of shifting cultivation forest of secondary growth on any State land which is not the subject of a licence under section 24. Secondary growth for the purposes of this rule is defined as forest containing trees of not more than six years standing and not exceeding fifteen centimetres diameter at one hundred and forty centimetres from the ground, being of a kind that may readily be felled by means of implements for cutting of no greater efficiency or weight than an ordinary parang.