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Forest (Amendment) Act (No. 23 of 1995) - Sect 9

Amendment of section 20 of the principal enactment

9. Section 20 of the principal enactment as last amended by Act No. 13 of 1982, is hereby further amended in subsection (1) of that section as follows:-
(1) by the substitution for the words " not included in reserve or village forest," of the words "not included in a reserve or conservation or village forest,";
(2) by the repeal of paragraph (d) of that subsection and the substitution therefor of the following paragraph:-"
(d) regulate or prohibit the building of houses or huts, the occupation of such houses or huts, the quarrying of stone or extraction of coral or molluse shells or the digging or mining for plumbago or gems or the burring of lime or charcoal or blasting of rocks or drilling for minerals;".


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