208 COLONIAL REPORTS MISCELLANEOUS. 



Applications for Grant and Issue of Licences. 



3. Applications for licences to collect rubber in any district shall be made to 

 and licences may be granted and issued by, the District Commissioner or by any 

 European Forest Officer of the District. 



General Powers of Licensee. 



4. Subject to the provisions of these rules a licensee shall be entitled to collect 

 rubber on any Reserve and on any Native lands in the district named in his 

 licence. 



Applicant whose Previous Application has been Refused. 



5. If any person who has been refused a licence or whose licence has been 

 forfeited in any district shall apply for a licence in the same or any other 

 district, he shall, upon making such application, inform the District Com- 

 missioner or Forest Officer to whom his application is made of the fact that he 

 has previously applied for and been refused a licence, or that his licence has been 

 forfeited and, if known to him. the reasons for such refusal or forfeiture. 



Right to Refuse to Issue Licence. 



6. No person shall be entitled as of absolute right to the issue of a licence. 



Duration of Licence. 



I. Licences shall be granted for the period mentioned therein. 



Applicants to have Knowledge of Tapping. 



8. Any applicant for a licence may be required to satisfy the officer to whom 

 the application is made that he has a competent knowledge of the proper 

 method of tapping trees and preparing rubber. 



Fees, &c. to be Paid before Issue of Licence. 



y. No licence shall be issued until the fees and commuted royalties prescribed 

 by these rules have been paid. 



Form of Licence. 



10. (a) Licences shall be printed in triplicate, and may be in Form A 

 appended hereto. Rules 2, 12, 13, 14, 15. 1(5, 17, 18, 24, 25 and 26 shall be 

 endorsed thereon. 



(b) Licence forms shall be bound into books. Every book shall contain 50 

 licences in triplicate, or such other number as the Conservator of Forests may 

 direct. The books and licences in every book shall be numbered consecutively 

 from 1 upwards. The duplicate and triplicate of every licence shall bear the 

 same number as the original. 



Triplicate of Licences to be sent to principal Forest Officers for Filing. 



II. The District Commissioner and every Forest Officer of a district shall, 

 upon issuing a licence, send the duplicate thereof to the Forest Officer in charge 

 of the Register referred to in rule 23, or if the Forest Officer issuing the licence 

 is also the officer in charge of the Register aforesaid, such officer shall retain 

 the duplicate of such licence. Every duplicate received or retained by the 

 officer in charge of the Register shall be filed by him in his office. 



Licences not Transferal// 

 12. Licences are not transferable 



