Section 99

Whoever, without lawful authority, extracts, removes or transports, or permits the extraction, removal or transportation of rock material from any Majlis land shall be guilty

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of an offence, and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or to both.

Whoever has in his custody or possession, or under his control, any rock material otherwise than in the form in which it constitutes a natural part of the land on which it is found, shall be presumed to have extracted, removed or transported, or permitted the extraction, removal or transportation of rock material without lawful authority.

Any person convicted of any offence under this section may be ordered to pay the

Majlis, in addition to the fine imposed on the conviction, compensation equal to the value of the rock material in question and of any timber felled or damaged in the course of extraction of the rock material.

For the purpose of subsection (3), the value of any rock material or timber shall, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, be taken as such amount as the Government Land or Forest Officer may certify, and any sum ordered to be paid by virtue of that subsection shall be recoverable as if it were a fine imposed on the conviction.

For the purpose of this section, Majlis land shall have same meaning assigned to it under section 95(3).

Molesting.