Forests Protection Act, 1974 🇬🇭

Ghana

N.R.C.D. 243

Published in Government Gazette on 22 February 1974
Assented to on 12 February 1974
Commenced on 22 February 1974
[This is the version of this document from 22 February 1974.]
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AN ACT to provide for the functions of forest officers, offences relating to forest reserves and for related matters.

(1)A person who in a forest reserve, without the written authority of the competent forest authority

(a)fells, uproots, lops, girdles, taps, damages by fire or otherwise damages a tree or timber,

(b)makes or cultivates a farm or erects a building,

(c)causes damage by negligence in felling a tree or cutting or removing timber,

(d)sets fire to grass or herbage, or kindles a fire without taking due precaution to prevent its spread,

(e)makes or lights a fire contrary to an order of the Forestry Commission,

(f)obstructs the channel of a river, stream, canal o…

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