Forest Plantation Act (No. 2), B.E. 2558 (2015).

This Act is enacted to amend the Law on Forest Plantation.
The Act added a definition of “Forest by-product” and the definition of “Forest plantation” in section 3 of the Forest Plantation Act, B.E. 2535 (1992) was repealed and replaced.
The land which is eligible to apply for registration as forest plantation must be under any of the category of land as prescribed in Section 4. The person having ownership, possessory right, or the right to utilize the land under section 4 who wishes to use such land in forest plantation for trading shall file an application for registration with the Registrar.
Section 9/1 and section 9/2 were added. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the wood and forest byproduct derived from forest plantation under this Act shall belong to the forest plantation operator, and he or she has the right in logging, lumbering, and collecting forest by-product therein. An animal naturally born and survives in the forest plantation without owner shall be deemed a wild animal under the protection of the law on reservation and protection of wild animal. Section 14/1 was added. For the purpose of preserving ecological system or preventing damage affecting system of balance of nature of the forest, the Director-General may issue an announcement determining that the collection, finding, trading, possessing, or carrying in transit of the forest by-product under paragraph one of Section 14/1 must be licensed, and may impose conditions on procedure of collection, and finding forest byproduct, and the amount of collecting forest by-product.