| (1) |
Any person who contravenes the prohibition of certain acts in relation to trees in natural forests referred to in section 7(1) is guilty of a second category offence. |
| (2) |
Any person who contravenes— |
| (a) |
the prohibition on the cutting, disturbance, damage or destruction of forest produce in or the removal or receipt of forest produce from a protected area referred to in section 10(1) is guilty of a second category offence; |
| (b) |
the rules referred to in section 11(2)(b), is guilty of a third category offence; |
| (i) |
the cutting, disturbance, damage or destruction of temporarily protected trees or groups of trees referred to in section 14(2) or protected trees referred to in section 15(1)(a); or |
| (ii) |
the possession, collection, removal, transport, export, purchase or sale of temporarily protected trees or groups of trees referred to in section 14(2) or protected trees referred to in section 15(1)(b), or any forest product derived from a temporarily protected tree, group of trees or protected tree, |
is guilty of a first category offence.
| (3) |
Any person who contravenes a prohibition or any other provision in a notice declaring a controlled forest area under section 17(3) and (4) is guilty of a second category offence. |
Basic Conditions of Employment Act, 1997
