National Reserved Forests Act, B.E. 2507 (A.D. 1964).

This Act provides for the determination, control over and maintenance of National Reserved Forests. Forest means the land which includes mountain, creek, swamp, canal, marsh, basin, waterway, lake, island and seashore which has been taken up or not acquired by a person in accordance with the law. The Minister of Agriculture shall take charge of and control of the execution of this Act and is empowered to appoint the competent officers and issue ministerial regulations. When the Minister deems it appropriate to determine any other forest as National Reserved Forests with a view to reserving its nature, timber, forest products or other natural resources, it shall be made by a notification in the ministerial regulations (sects. 6 to 9). When any forest is determined as National Reserved Forests, a committee for such National Reserved Forests shall be set up (arts. 10 and 11). In case government agencies desire to use any part of a land in the National Reserved Forests for working premises or any other utilization therein, the Director-General, with the approval of the Minister, is empowered to determine such land to be an official utilization. Within the National Reserved Forests, no person shall occupy, possess, exploit and inhabit the land, develop, clear, burn the forest, collect the forest products nor cause by any other means whatsoever any damage to the nature of the National Reserved Forest. Logging or collection of forest products and logging of reserved timber species may be done after obtaining permission form the Director General. (sects. 14 to 18). For the purposes of control, supervision, maintenance or improvement of the National Reserved Forests, the Director-General is empowered to order, in writing, the competent officer or officer of the Royal Forest Department to carry out any activity therein. The remaining part of the Act contains penal and transitional provisions.