Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires“forest offence” means any contravention of the provisions of this Act or of any regulations made under this Act; “forest officer” means any person appointed by or under the control of the Governor-General to be Chief Forest Officer, or by the Public Services Commission to be a principal forest officer, conservation officer, forester, forest ranger, or forest guard, or to discharge any function of a forest officer under this Act or under any regulations made under this Act; “forest produce” includes– (a) timber, lumber, firewood, charcoal, bark, extracts of bark; 7 (b) chicle, rubber and other latex, gums, resins, turpentine spices, tanstuffs, dyestuffs, drugs, leaves, fibres, thatching material derived from wild-growing trees or plants; (c) trees, plants, dead or alive, and all parts and produce of such trees and plants, grasses; (d) wild animals, dead or alive, products of wild animals such as skins, shells, tusks, horns, bones, silk, cocoons, shellac, honey, wax, and all other parts and produce of wild animals; (e) the following when found in or brought from a forest reserve; soil, peat, rock, sand, coral and such products of mines and quarries as the Minister may from time to time declare to be “forest road” means any road or thoroughfare which may be declared by the Minister responsible for forests, under this Act, and includes all bridges, ferries, drains, dams, embankments, causeways, fences and ditches belonging or appertaining to a forest road, and such land adjoining any forest road as may be reserved for its protection by Order of the Minister; “national lands” means all lands, including cayes and parts thereof not already located or granted and also includes any lands which have been, or may hereafter become, escheated to, leased by, or otherwise acquired by the Government; “private lands” means all lands including cayes or parts thereof owned by or leased to any company or private individual, Provided that the terms of the lease do not reserve to the Government any rights in respect of forest produce in the lands so leased; 8 “river” includes streams, canals, creeks, reservoirs, lakes, ponds, and other channels natural and artificial; “scheduled truck pass” means any truck pass, logging trail, cartway, bridle track or pathway which may be declared by the Minister under section 30 to be a scheduled truck pass and includes all bridges, ferries, drains, dams, embankments, causeways, fences and ditches belonging or appertaining to a scheduled truck pass and also such land adjoining a scheduled truck pass as may be reserved for its protection by Order of the “timber” or “lumber” includes trees when they have fallen or have been felled, and all wood, whether cut up or fashioned or hollowed out for any purpose or not; “trees” includes shrubs, bushes, palms, bamboos, creepers, canes, stumps, seedlings, saplings and coppice shoots; and CAP. 220. “wild animals” means animals of the kinds listed in the four Schedules to the Wild Life Protection Act.