Section 57
The person named in any licence issued under this
Ordinance or any of his authorized agents shall, within a reasonable time after demand by any forest officer, produce the same for inspection by such officer.
Renewal 58.
No person shall have any right, upon the expiration of the period of a licence issued under this Ordinance, to any renewal thereof, whether upon the same terms and conditions or otherwise:
Provided that nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit a renewal of the licence by the Director on such terms and conditions as may be approved by the Minister.
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Removal of forest produce after expiry of licence 59.
On the expiry of a licence to take or deal in forest produce including any forest carbon licence issued pursuant to section 70A, the Director may grant to the holder of a licence a period of not exceeding three months, or such other period as may be determined by the Minister, for the removal of or dealing in such forest produce subject to payment of royalty. The holder of a licence shall thereafter have no further right of ownership in or possession of such forest produce shall revert to the State.
Timber, etc. for domestic use 60.―(1) Subject to section 53, and to any rules made under section 113, and any other written law, any resident of Sarawak may―
(a)
without a licence, collect and remove from State land which is not a forest reserve or protected forest, any forest produce other than timber which is required exclusively for his own domestic use and not for sale, barter or profit; or
(b)
with the written approval of the Director or any other forest officer authorized by him, cut and remove timber from any
State land forest which is required exclusively for his own domestic use and not for sale, barter or profit.
(2)
Any person who―
(a)
contravenes subsection (1); or
(b)
having obtained the written approval of the Director or any other forest officer under subsection (1)(b), uses or allows any timber to be used for purposes other than his own domestic use, or who sells or otherwise dispose of the timber for barter or profit, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, upon conviction, be punished with a fine of not less than five thousand ringgit and not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both, and for a subsequent offence, shall be punished with a fine of not less than ten thousand ringgit and not exceeding one
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hundred thousand ringgit and imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.
(3)
When a person is convicted of an offence under this section, the court shall, in addition to any penalty which it may impose, order such person to pay to the Government a sum of not less than ten times the value (as assessed by the Director or any forest officer authorized by him) of the forest produce in respect of which the offence has been committed, and any sum ordered to be so paid shall be recoverable by the Government as a civil debt.
Power to declare protected tree or species of tree