New Zealand Gazette – 1909 – No. 32

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✨ Forestry Regulations

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 32

Reservation of trees.

A Commissioner shall have power to reserve trees required for special purposes on any area for which a license may be granted; such trees must be branded with the letters C.F., and when so branded they shall not be cut by the licensee.

Seizure of timber.

A Commissioner may cause to be seized all timber, wherever found, which he may have reason to believe has been cut in a forest under his management by an unlicensed person; but in case a right to such timber shall be asserted within fourteen days after the notice hereafter mentioned, and such right shall be established to the satisfaction of such Commissioner, such timber shall be restored to the claimant.

Timber seized and not claimed shall be sold.

All timber when seized shall be marked with a forest brand, CF, and after notice in writing of the seizure thereof has been posted up for a period of fourteen days in the Land Office and at the police-station in the district where such seizure was made shall, in case the claimant shall not appear and establish his claim within such fourteen days therefrom, be sold in such manner and subject to such conditions as the Commissioner may direct. In all cases where the address of the reputed owner of such timber is known to the Commissioner, he shall cause notice of seizure to be served upon him by means of the post or otherwise, but the non-receipt of such notice by the reputed owner shall not invalidate the sale. Such notice of seizure shall be in the form set out in Schedule D.

Removal of timber.

All timber cut under a license must be removed during the currency of the license, unless an extension of time be granted by the Minister; otherwise such timber may be declared forfeited, and may be seized, and sold on behalf of the Crown.

Proceeds of sale of seized timber.

The proceeds of the sale of timber so seized shall be accounted for and paid as money payable to the Public Account.

Construction of roads and tramways.

The right to take, lay off, and use roads and tramways within the area comprised in every license issued under the said Act and these regulations is reserved to the Crown; and the Minister may authorise the taking, laying-off, and using of any such roads and tramways by any local body or by the holder of any other sawmill or timber license other than the holder of the license over the land upon which such roads or tramways may be authorised, and such last-named holder shall not fell timber upon or in any way obstruct the same; but such authority shall not entitle such local body or other licensee to remove any timber from such land, or confer any rights other than is herein provided.
If, for the purpose of removing timber, any license-holder shall have lawfully made a tramway or road through any forest, not being a highway, it shall not be lawful for any other person to use such tramway or road, or in any way to obstruct or fell trees across such tramway or road, without permission of the person making the same first obtained: Provided that, if such tramway or road shall not be used at any time for ninety consecutive

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