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to harvest, collect or remove the forest produce from the place where it is harvested or collected;

to buck, limb or debark when necessary for or incidental to the purpose of removal from any forest;

to fashion forest produce in any forest where specifically authorised by any rule made under this Act;

“conversion plant” means any plant, factory or premises, with or without structures or improvements, in or upon which forest produce is or may be converted;

“conveyance” includes ship, train, vehicle aircraft or any other means of transport by which persons or goods can be carried;

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“Director” means the Director of Forestry appointed under section 3 and includes any other officer whom His Majesty the

Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan may by public notification declare to be vested with all or any of the powers conferred on the Director of

Forestry by this Act;

“entry permit” means a permit issued under section 14C(2);

“forest offence” means an offence punishable under this Act or under any rules made under section 52;

“forest officer” means any person appointed under section 3 to be

Director of Forestry, Deputy Director of Forestry, Silviculturist,

Senior Forestry Officer, Forestry Officer, Assistant Forestry

Officer, Senior Forestry Assistant, Forestry Assistant, Forest

Ranger or Junior Forestry Assistant, or to discharge any function of a forest officer under this Act;

“forest produce” includes —

the following when found in or brought from a reserved forest: guano, peat, rock, sea-sand, river-sand, sea-shells, shell-sand and surface soil;

the following when found in or brought from a reserved forest or State land: trees and all parts or produce not hereinafter mentioned of trees; plants including climbers, creepers and grasses, and all parts or produce of such plants; silk, cocoons, honey and wax and edible birds’ nests; and

the following whether found in or brought from a reserved forest, State land, land reserved under the Land Code (Chapter 40)

or any previous land Enactment or alienated land: timber, firewood, charcoal, getah, getah taban leaves, wood oil, bark, extracts of bark, damar and atap;

“Fund” means the Forest Development Fund established under section 22M(1);

“guano” includes the excrement of birds and of bats;

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“licence” means a licence issued under section 22B;

“licensee” means a person issued with a licence under this Act;

“Minister” means the Minister responsible for forestry matters;

“non-restricted forest” means any reserved forest or part thereof declared to be a non-restricted forest under section 14B(1);

“property mark” means a mark placed on timber to denote that, after all purchase money or royalties due to the Government have been paid, the person in whose name such mark is registered has or will have a right of property in the timber;

“reforestation plan” means a plan to establish tree crops or to renew trees over an area within a reserved forest or State land;

“rehabilitation programme” means a programme designed to silviculturally care, treat, develop and protect logged-over forest or any disturbed or damaged forests with the objective of restoring them back, approximately, to their original state, or to enable them to sustainably meet the end-product objectives for which they are managed for over time continuum in harmony with the maintenance of a well-balanced ecosystem;

“reserved forest” means every part of a forest declared to be a reserved forest under the provisions of section 13, or declared to be a reserved forest under the provisions of any other Act relating to forests, which shall not at the time being have ceased to be a reserved forest under section 22 or under the provisions of any such Act;

“restricted forest” means any reserved forest or part thereof declared or deemed to be a restricted forest under section 14B(1);

“river” includes stream, canal, creek and other channel, natural or artificial;

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“take”, in relation to forest produce, includes every activity involved in —

the harvesting, collecting, tapping, mining, quarrying or removing, of any forest produce;

the injuring or damaging of forest produce; or

the grazing of cattle upon the forest produce;

“timber” includes trees, when they have fallen or been felled and all wood whether cut up or fashioned or hollowed out for any purpose or not;

“tree” includes root, stump, stem, branch, brushwood, palm, cane, rattan and creeper;

“use permit” means a use permit referred to in section 22C(1).