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Forest Ordinance (No. 16 of 1907 - Chapter 283).

Country
Sri Lanka
Type of law
Legislation
Date of original text
Date of latest amendment
Source
FAO , FAOLEX
Keywords
Abstract
The Ordinance is divided into the following Chapters: Preliminary (I); Of Reserved Forests (II); Of Village Forests (III); Of the Protection of Forest and Forest Produce (IV); Of the Control of Timber and Forest Produce in Transit (V); Of the Collection of Drift, Stranded and Other Timber (VI); Penalties and Procedure (VII); Cattle Trespass (VIII); Of Forest Officers (IX); Miscellaneous (X).
The Minister may, by Order to be published in the Gazette, declare as "reserved forests" (a) lands resumed by the State according to the Lands Resumption Ordinance; (b) lands that have been declared to be property of the State; (c) lands that have been acquired by the State for public purposes. Sections 6 and 7 establish the acts that are prohibited in a reserved forest (among others, trespassing of cattle, poisoning of water, destruction of trees, hunting). Moreover, the Ministry may constitute any portion of forest a "village forest" for the benefit of any village community or group of village communities. All trees enumerated in Schedule I in a village forest shall be deemed to be property of the State (sect. 13); all trees of the species specified in Schedule II in any forest shall be deemed to be reserved trees, the cutting, marking, girdling, destruction of which (except as provided by rules made by the Minister in that respect) are prohibited according to section 19.
The Minister may make regulations on the protection and conservation of reserved forests, as well as the transit of all forest produce by land or water. The Minister may also delegate the control of reserved forests to a Conservator of Forests, appointed according to the provisions of section 58.
Attached files
http://faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/srl3371.pdf
Long title of text
An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to forests and the felling and transport of timber.
Notes
The provisions of this Ordinance may also be declared to be applicable to forests leased by the Crown. The Ordinance contains amendments up to 16 November 2009.
Repealed
No
Serial Imprint
Forest Ordinance 1907 (Cap. 283) - includes amendments until 2009, 19 pp.
Source language

English

Legislation Amendment
No
Amended by
Forest (Amendment) Act, 2009 (Act No. 65 of 2009).
Forests (Amendment) Act (Act No. 23 of 1995).
Forests (Amendment) Act (Act No. 84 of 1988).
Forests (Amendment) Act (Act No. 13 of 1982).
Forests (Amendment) Act (Act No. 56 of 1979).
Forest (Amendment) Act, 1966 (Act No. 13 of 1966).
Implemented by
Forest Conservation (Registration of Timber Depots and Property Marks) Regulation No. 01 of 2014.
Order on the Declaration of four forests within different Districts as Reserved and Conservation Forests, under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order on the Declaration of four forests within different Districts as Reserved and Conservation Forests, under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order on the Declaration of five forests within different Districts as Reserved Forests, under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order on the Declaration of five forests within different Districts as Reserved and Conservation Forests, under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order on the Declaration of three forests within different Districts as Reserved and Conservation Forests, under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order on the Declaration of eight forests within different Districts as Reserved and Conservation Forests, under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order on the Declaration of seven forests within different Districts as Reserved and Conservation Forests, under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order on the Declaration of six forests within different Districts as Reserved and Conservation Forests, under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order on the Declaration of five forests within different Districts as Reserved and Conservation Forests, under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order on the Declaration of four forests within different Districts as Reserved Forests, under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order on the Declaration of six forests within different Districts as Reserved and Conservation Forests, under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Padaviya Reserved Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Arawa Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Ohiya Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Kalukanda Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Miriyagalla Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Ussettewa Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Angamuwa Kanda Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Orupeella Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Appanduwa Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Palagala Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Alagalla Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order on the Declaration of eight forests within different Districts as Reserved and Conservation Forests, under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order on the Declaration of five forests within different Districts as Reserved and Conservation Forests, under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order on the Declaration of three forests within different Districts as Reserved Forests, under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order on the Declaration of ten forests within different Districts as Reserved Forests, under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order on the Declaration of eleven forests within different Districts as Reserved Forests, under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order on the Declaration of five forests within different Districts as Reserved Forests, under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Huruluoya Conservation Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Mundumurippy Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Gaswatta Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Mahagama Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Rilaolukand Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Kivulegedara Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Kitulanahela Kanda Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Bambaragala Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Petiyagoda Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order on the Declaration of nine forests within different Districts as Reserved Forests, under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Malasnagala Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance.
Order on the Declaration of two forests within different Districts as Reserved Forests, under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Diyadava Conservation Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Bakmitiyawa-Timbirigolla Reserved Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order on the Declaration of the 19 Forests in the Matale District as Reserved Forests, under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Kewalagala Reserved Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Mudunkotuwa Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Waratelgoda - Kitulatura Reserved Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Talagahakanda Conservation Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Lepolawakanda Reserved Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Appanduwa Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Order establishing the Morahela Forest under the Forest Conservation Ordinance (Chapter 451).
Forest Regulations No. 01 of 2008.
Forest Rules 1979 (No. 1 of 1979).
Forest Regulations 1979 (No. 2 of 1979).
Forest Regulations 1979 (No. 3 of 1979).
Forest Regulations 1979 (No. 4 of 1979).
Forest Regulations 1979 (No. 5 of 1979).
Forest Regulations 1979 (No. 6 of 1979).
Forest Regulations 1979 (No. 1 of 1979).