Scheduled truck passes

(1) Where the Chief Forest Officer is of the opinion that the only practicable route for the haulage or extraction of timber or other forest produce from any forest to a public road, a forest road or a waterway is over land in private ownership or 21 occupation, he may apply to the Minister to declare a scheduled truck pass over such land, Provided that– (a) the Chief Forest Officer shall cause notice of the terms of his intended application to be published in the Gazette at least four weeks before it is submitted to the Minister and shall serve a copy of the notice upon the owner or occupier of the land affected; (b) the Chief Forest Officer shall submit to the Minister, together with such application, any objections that may have been made in respect thereof. (2) Upon receipt of such application and any objections thereto the Minister may, if he considers it expedient, by Order declare the route specified in such Order and such adjoining land as may be reserved for its protection to be a scheduled truck pass. (3) Any person other than the owner thereof who desires to use a scheduled truck pass shall apply to the Chief Forest Officer for a licence to do so. (4) The Chief Forest Officer may grant a licence to any person upon payment of an annual fee not exceeding one hundred dollars, and the Chief Forest Officer shall pay the fee to the owner of the scheduled truck pass. (5) Such licence shall entitle the licensee, his workmen, servants and agents to use the scheduled truck pass for the passage of his vehicles, logging trucks, tractors, logging equipment, stores, timber and forest produce extracted by him. 22 (6) A licensee shall compensate the owner of a scheduled truck pass for any forest produce destroyed or removed by the licensee in making a new scheduled truck pass or in widening, enlarging or diverting any existing scheduled truck pass. The amount of such compensation, in the absence of agreement, shall be assessed by the Chief Forest Officer at current royalty rates and may be recovered from the licensee by the owner in any court of competent jurisdiction. (7) Any person who hinders or obstructs a licensee in the use of a scheduled truck pass commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars. (8) Any Order made under this section may, on the application of the Chief Forest Officer, be cancelled by the