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National Forests Act, 1998 (Act No. 84 of 1998)

Chapter 3 : Special Measures to Protect Forests and Trees

Part 2 : Protected areas

10. Effect of setting aside protected areas

 

(1) No person may cut, disturb, damage or destroy any forest produce in, or remove or receive any forest produce from, a protected area, except—
(a) in terms of the rules made for the proper management of the area in terms of section 11(2)b);
(b) in the course of the management of the protected area by the responsible organ of State or person;
(c) in terms of a right of servitude;
(d) in terms of the authority of a licence granted under section 7(4) or 23;
(e) in terms of an exemption under section 7(1)(b)(ii) or 24(6); or
(f) in the case of a protected area on land outside a State forest, with the consent of the registered owner or by reason of another right which allows the person concerned to do so,

subject to the prohibition in section 7(1).

 

(2) The decision to declare a protected area may not be revoked, nor may a protected area which is State forest be sold, nor may a servitude over a protected area be granted, without—
(a) the Minister following the same procedure as that required for declaring the protected area; and
(b) the approval by resolution of Parliament.

 

(3) Changes to the boundaries of an existing protected area require compliance with subsection (2)(a) only.