Malaysia legislation
Section 81
Section 81
(a)
graze cattle or permit cattle to graze;
(b)
fell, cut, ring, mark, lop or tap any tree; or injure by fire, or otherwise, or remove any tree or timber;
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(c)
cause any damage in felling any tree or cutting or dragging any timber;
(d)
search for, collect, subject to any manufacturing process or remove any forest produce or minerals;
(e)
clear or break up any land for cultivation or any other purpose;
(f)
use poisonous substance, or dynamite or other explosives on rivers or lakes for the purpose of fishing; or hunt, shoot, fish or set traps or snares; or
(g)
trespass in any manner not in this section hereinbefore prohibited.
(2)
Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable—
(a)
if the offence is under paragraph (1)(a), to a fine not exceeding *ten thousand ringgit;
(b)
if the offence is under paragraph (b) or (c), to a fine not exceeding **fifty 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 (d), (e), (f) or (g), 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.
(d)
(deleted by Act A864).
(3)
Any person convicted of an offence under this section may, in addition to any penalty imposed on the conviction, be ordered to pay to the State Authority—
(a)
ten times the value of any tree or timber; and
(b)
the costs of repairing any damage, in respect whereof the offence was committed, and any sum ordered to be so paid shall be recoverable as if it were a fine so imposed.
*NOTE—Previously “two hundred ringgit” –see the National Forestry (Amendment) Act 1993 [Act A864].
**NOTE—Previously “two thousand ringgit” –see the National Forestry (Amendment) Act 1993
[Act A864].
***NOTE—Previously “five years”– see the National Forestry (Amendment) Act 1993 [Act A864].
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National Forestry
Prohibition as to fire