Notice of the list of protected tree species under the National Forests Act, 1998 (No. 536 of 2018).

This Notice of the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, made under section 15(3) of the National Forests Act, 1998, specifies in the Schedule protected trees belonging to a particular species under section 12(1)(d) of the Act. The effect of this Declaration is that in terms of section 15(1) of the Act, no person may cut, disturb, damage or destroy any such protected tree or possess, collect, remove, transport, export, purchase, sell, donate or in any other manner acquire or dispose of such protected tree or any forest product derived from a protected tree, except under a licence or exemption granted by the Minister and subject to such period and conditions as may be stipulated.