Chicle Protection Act.

“Chicle” means chicle, crown gum or any other sapotaceous gum or latex, in its natural state or cooked or prepared in any way. The Minister may from time to time make regulations for the protection of chicle and for regulating the transport by land, water, or by any other method, and the import and export of chicle, and in particular may prohibit any person from bleeding, preparing, selling, buying, storing, transporting, importing or exporting any chicle or otherwise engaging in the chicle business except under licence, at such seasons, upon such terms and conditions and upon payment of such fees as may from time to time be prescribed. Other provisions of this Act specify powers of control and enforcement and prescribe offences. When in any proceedings under this Act, a question arises as to the ownership or origin of any chicle or whether any land is national land, such chicle shall presumed to be the property of the Crown, and to have been bled on national land, and such land shall be deemed to be national land until the contrary is proved