FORESTRY LAW OF LAGOS STATE
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FORESTRY LAW
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
PART 1 – PRELIMINARY
1. Appointment of forestry officers
PART 2 – Special Provisions relating to Government Forest Reserves and Government Protected Forests
2. Power to constitute reserves and protected forests
3. Notification of intentions
4. Notice of inquiry
5. Duty of reserve settlement at inquiry
6. Reserve settlement officer to have judicial powers
7. Reserve settlement officer may sever or join claims
8. Publications of judgment on completion of the inquiry
9. Appeals from judgment of reserve settlement officer
10. Order of the Commissioner constituting the forest reserve
11. Power to extinguish or modify rights
12. Reserve may be made to exclude areas over which claims are admitted
13. Commissioner may close existing rights of way and water courses if alternatives exist
14. Extinguishment and revival of rights
15. Non-exercise of rights
16. Rights to reserve may not be alienated without consent of the Commissioner
17. No new rights to be acquired in land to be constituted a reserve except with approval
18. Power to de-reserve
19. Protected forests
PART 3 – LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCIL PROTECTED FORESTS
20. Power to withdraw protection
PART 4 – ADMINISTRATION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCIL FOREST RESERVES
21. Management of reserve
PART 5 – COMMUNAL FORESTRY AREAS
22. Power to declare lands communal forestry area
23. Notification
24. Management and control
25. Power to make rules for protection and management of communal forestry areas
26. Power to vary or cancel declaration
PART 6 – GENERAL PROVISIONS
27. Marking of boundaries
28. Improvement of forests generally
29. Prevention of offences
30. Power to exempt certain classes and districts
31. Forest produce required for public purposes
32. Disposal of fees and royalties
33. Saving of power of acquisition for public purposes
34. Power to make regulations
35. Power to exclude from regulations
36. Power to make rules
37. Acts prohibited in a forest reserve
38. Saving in respect of section 37
39. Penalty for illegal felling of timber, illegal installation of sawmills, etc.
40. Offences in protected forests
41. Seizure of certain forest produce
42. Offences
43. Arrest of suspected persons
44. Innocent possession
45. Onus of proof
46. Authority to compound offences
47. General penalty
48. Additional penalty
49. Institution and conduct of legal proceedings
PART 7
50. Interpretation
51. Saving as to existing forest reserves
52. Citation
FORESTRY LAW
A LAW FOR THE PRESERVATION AND CONTROL OF FORESTS
[W.R.L. 1959, Cap.38. W.N. 17 of 1960. L.S.L.N. 16 of 1972]
[Commencement] [1st February, 1938]
LAWS OF LAGOS STATE
LAWS OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
