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Provided that no order or rule made as aforesaid shall come into force in any 

 district or province to which the Native Councils Ordinance applies, unless the 

 same shall have been approved by the Native Council, duly constituted in 

 accordance with the provisions of the said Ordinance for the district or 

 province affected thereby. 



Provided also that all rules and orders shall in every case apply to all Crown 

 lands and lands leased or held by the Crown. 



Jurisdiction of Commissioners. 



22. Proceedings under this Ordinance may be taken before any District 

 Commissioner, who shall have full jurisdiction to determine summarily all such 

 proceedings, or before any Native Council duly constituted under the Native 

 Councils Ordinance. 



Forfeiture. 



23. In addition to any fine or term of imprisonment which any Court may 

 impose under this Ordinance or any rule thereunder, such Court may order the 

 forfeiture and give directions as to the disposal of the timber, rubber, forest 

 produce, instrument or means in respect of which or by which the offence has 

 been committed. 



Proof of Knoidedge. 



24. Where a person is charged with the breach of any order, prohibiting the 

 sale, offering for sale, purchase, possession or export of timber, rubber or 

 forest produce, either taken, collected or prepared in contravention of any order 

 or rule under this Ordinance, or taken, collected, prepared, sold or purchased 

 in any territories aforesaid, near or adjacent to the Colony or Protectorate, in 

 contravention of the law for the time being in force in such territories, such 

 person shall be liable to be convicted of such breach, unless he shows to the 

 satisfaction of the Court that he was unaware that such timber, rubber or 

 forest produce was taken, collected or prepared in contravention of any order 

 or rule aforesaid, or was taken, collected, prepared, sold or purchased in 

 contravention of any law aforesaid, as the case may be. 



Orders and Rules in Schedule to be in Force. 



25. Unless and until further or other provision be made in the manner 

 above prescribed, the rules and orders contained in the schedule hereto shall be 

 and remain in force, subject to the provisions of section 21 hereof. 



THE SCHEDULE. 



1. RULES RELATING TO RUBBER. 



Title. 



1. The rules may be cited as " The Rubber Rules." 



Definitions. 



2. In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, 



(1) " Head Chief" or "Chiefs" means any Chief or Chiefs having 



paramount authority over a Native community. 



(2) " Headman " or " Headmen " means any Chief or Chiefs having imme- 



diate control and authority over a Native community. 



(3) " Licence " means a licence to collect rubber. 



(4) "Native Lands'" means forest lands belonging to Natives and Native 



communities. 



(5) " District " means a district constituted under the provisions of the 



Supreme Court Ordinance, and any part of such district. 



(6) Other expressions shall have the same meanings as are given in the 



Forestry Ordinance. 



(7) " Tapping " means either the process of extracting the rubber-producing 



latex, or the single act of cutting trees for the purpose of such 

 extraction, according as the context requires. 



