Trees and Timber Act, 1974 🇬🇭

Ghana 1 Citing Cases

N.R.C.D. 273

Trees and Timber Act, 1974

Published in Government Gazette on 30 August 1974
Assented to on 23 August 1974
Commenced on 30 August 1974
[This is the version of this document from 30 August 1974.]

AN ACT to provide for the registration of locality marks, the felling for export and for related matters.

Property Marks

1. Locality marks

(1)The Chief Conservator of Forests shall divide Ghana into appropriate areas, and shall allot to each area a distinctive mark to be known as a locality mark.

(2)The Chief Conservator of Forests shall keep a record of each area and the locality marks allotted, which shall be open to public inspection without charge during office hours.

2. Felling of trees for export

A person shall not cut or fell a growing tree for export in log form or for conversion in a mill unless that person has first registered a property mark at the office of the Executive Director, Forests Division of the Forestry Commission, endorsed for the locality in which that person proposes …

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