Penalty for occupying, etc., on pretext of application

(1) Every person who, on pretext of having made an application to purchase or lease any national lands, or upon any pretext whatever, enters upon or occupies or attempts to appropriate or otherwise turn to account any national lands or any produce or product thereof, without the permission of the Minister authorising such entry or occupation, is guilty of an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars. (2) It shall be lawful for the Commissioner or any person employed under him to seize and take for the benefit of the 20 Government all timber wood, nuts, ground soil or other produce or product of such land, which may have been cut or gathered or dug by such person, wherever the same may be found.