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2023 Laws not yet authenticated through a Commencement Order

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)

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6. Scope of licences

Licences shall include licences to cut a specified number of trees, a specified quantity of timber, to extract a specified quantity of forest produce in or from a specified area of Crown lands and Forest Reserves or to burn charcoal on Crown lands. Such licences shall be in the forms included in Schedule 1 to these Rules, namely—

Form 2 — Forest Produce other than timber.

Form 3 — A specified number of trees or quantity of timber.

Form 4 — Timber to burn charcoal on Crown lands.

6. Scope of licences

6. Permit to move timber

24. Remission of taxation

3. Appointment of Chief Forest Officer

4. Appointment of forest officers

5. Ex officio forest officers

6. Permit to move timber

7. Reason for refusal of permit

8. Notice of intention to be a timber dealer

9. Dealing at unnotified place

10. Sign boards

11. Books to be kept by dealers

12. Power of inspection

13. Penalties respecting non-production of books

14. Liability of dealers for others

15. Liability of servants, agents and others

16. Exemption of dealer

17. Liability of partner, director, manager, secretary or other officer

18. Refusal to answer or making false answers

19. Forest Reserves

20. Demarcation and protection of Reserves

21. Protective area on private lands

22. Power to make rules

23. Power to enter and carry out works

24. Remission of taxation

25. Acquisition of a protected forest

26. Liability of occupier or owner for breach of rules

27. Voluntary Protection

28. Prohibited areas

29. Proceedings against person in wrongful possession of Crown Land

30. Mode of serving summons on information

31. Evidence of petition and proceeding thereon

33. Forest Offences

34. Livestock straying

35. Offences with intent to cause damage or wrongful gain

36. Power to demand production of removal permits

37. Power of arrest

38. Power to seize tools and produce and condemn

39. Compensation in addition to penalty

40. Produce, tools, etc. liable to forfeiture

41. Sale of perishable goods

42. Recovery of Penalties

43. Prevention of Offences

44. Protection of persons acting under Act

45. Presumption as to ownership of produce

46. Compounding of forest offences

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

Forest Reserve Proclamations – Section 19 (Statutory instruments 48/1946, 55/1951, 10/1952, 53/1984 and 77/1985)

Protected Forest Rules and Declarations – Sections 21 and 22 (Statutory Instrument 18/1951)

Prohibited Areas Proclamation – Section 28 (Statutory Instrument 49/1949)

Crown Land Forest Produce Rules – Section 48 (Statutory Instruments 45/1946, 9/1951 and 11/1983)

3. Grant of concessions

4. Grant of licences

5. Application for licences

7. Receipts for compensation

8. Procedure where applicant for licence is illiterate

9. Procedure where royalty is to be paid according to girth measurement

10. Discretion of Chief Forest Officer to grant licence

11. Nature of tree or timber to be cut

12. Royalties to be paid before delivery of licence

13. Condition of cutting trees or remnants

14. Measurement of trees to be cut

15. Marking of trees to be cut

16. Prohibition against removal of timber

17. Grant of removal permits

18. Conditions concerning grant of removal permit

19. Prohibition against grant of removal permit till payment made for timber

20. Royalty paid on sound timber by the cubic foot

21. Return of expired licences

22. Conditions to be observed before timber or forest produce becomes property of licensee

23. Payment of royalties and dues

24. Licences to possess, carry and use a property mark

25. Discretion in Chief Forest Officer to refuse to register property mark

26. Use of registered property mark

27. Design of registered property mark

28. Fees payable on registration of property mark

29. Renewal of registration of property mark

30. Certificate to be granted on registration

31. Condition of grant of registration or renewal of property mark

33. Cancellation of licence on breach of any rule