Section 31
Director to publish notification
―(1) When the Director is satisfied that it is the desire of a majority of the members of a community that a communal forest shall be constituted, he shall, with the written approval of the Minister, publish a notification which shall―
(a)
specify as accurately as possible the situation and limits of the communal forest;
(b)
declare that it is proposed to constitute it a communal forest; and
(c)
call upon any person desirous of making a claim to any rights or privileges to lodge such claim with the Regional
Forests Officer within a period to be stated in the notification, which period shall not be less than three months.
(2)
A copy of the notification shall be published in at least one newspaper circulating in Sarawak or in such medium as circumstances may permit, and displayed at any place or at the District Office for the area to be constituted a communal forest.
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