202 COLONIAL ItEPOKTS MISCELLANEOUS. 



APPENDIX. 



CHAPTEK CXXVIII. 



FORESTRY. 



(No. 14 K>02, and P. No. 28 11)01, with subsequent amendments.) 



Short Title. 



1 . This Ordinance may be cited as " The Forestry Ordinance." 



Definitions. 



2. In this Ordinance and in any Rules and Orders made thereunder unless 

 the context otherwise requires : 



(1) " Tree " includes palms, bamboos, stumps, brush-wood and canes ; 



(2) " Timber " includes trees when they have fallen or have been felled, aud 



all wood whether cut up or fashioned, or hollowed out for any 

 purpose ; 



(3) " Forest Produce " includes : 



A. The following, whether found in or brought from a forest or 

 not, that is to say, timber, charcoal, rubber, gutta percha, wood oil, 

 resin, natural varuish, and bark Jac. 



B. The following, when found in or brought from a forest, that is to 

 say : 



(i). Trees and leaves, flowers and fruits, and all other parts or produce 



not hereinbefore mentioned of trees, and 

 (ii) Plants not being trees (including grass, creepers, reeds and moss, 



and ail parts or produce of such plants); 

 (iii) Peat, surface soil, and other substances other than minerals to 



which the Mining Regulation Ordinance or other law amending 



the same applies. 



(4) "Lands at the disposal of the Government" mean any lands of which 



the Crown has acquired or may acquire the ownership by conquest, 

 capitulation, treaty, grant or in any way other than by agreement 

 under the provisions of this Ordinance ; 



(5) ' Native lands " means any waste, forest and other lands at the disposal 



of a Native community and not being the private property of any 

 individual ; 



(6) " To take timber " includes to fell trees and to carry away the timber 



from the lands upon which the trees have fallen or been felled ; 



(7) " Enquiry " means any enquiry by a Reserve Settlement Commissioner 



under this Ordinance ; 



(8) " Forestry Officer" means any officer appointed by the Governor under 



section 3 of this Ordinance ; 



(9) " Native Community " means any group of persons occupying any lauds 



in accordance and subject to Native law, and subject to the control and 

 authority of any Chief or Chiefs ; 



(10) "Reserve Settlement Commissioner " includes any person appointed by 

 the Governor to act on behalf of or in succession to the Reserve 

 Settlement Commissioner appointed by a notice under section 6. 



Appointment of Forestry Officers, d'c. 



3. The Governor may from time to time appoint such officers as he may 

 think necessary for carrying the provisions of this Ordinance and any orders 

 and rules thereunder into effect, at such salaries and upon such conditions as he 

 may think fit ; and iruy revoke any such appointment. 



