National Forests Act, 1998 (Act No. 84 of 1998)NoticesDeclaration of a List of National Forest Types as Natural ForestsNotice No. 167 of 2017 |
Notice No. 167 of 2017
3 March 2017
GG 40660
Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
By virtue of the powers vested in me by section 7(2) of the National Forests Act, 1998, I, Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries hereby declare the natural forest types set out in schedule A below as natural forests.
The effect of this declaration is that in terms of section 7(1) of the National Forests Act, 1998, no person may:—
| (a) | cut, disturb, damage or destroy any indigenous tree in a natural forest , or |
| (b) | possess, collect, remove, transport, export, purchase, sell, donate or in any other manner acquire or dispose of any tree, or any forest product derived from a tree contemplated in paragraph (a) except in terms of:— |
| (i) | a license issued under subsection (4) or section 23; or |
| (ii) | an exemption from the provisions of this subsection published by the Minister in the Gazette on the advice of the Council. |