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FOREST ACT (CHAPTER 46) FOREST RULES

FOREST ACT

(CHAPTER 46)

FOREST RULES

S 17/56

Amended by

S 99/59

S 97/60

S 74/74

S 29/00

S 30/00

REVISED EDITION 2002

(15th March 2002)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION FOREST RULES

ARRANGEMENT OF RULES

Rule

PART I

INTRODUCTORY

1. Citation.

2. Interpretation.

PART II

SHIFTING CULTIVATION

3. No felling of old forest on State land without permission.

PART III

THE TAKING OF FOREST PRODUCE

(A) STATE LAND

4. No taking of forest produce except under licence.

5. Periods and conditions of licences.

6. Deposit.

7. Sub-licences for workmen.

8. Prohibition on felling certain trees.

9. Privileges to natives of Brunei Darussalam.

(B) RESERVED LAND

(OTHER THAN RESERVED FORESTS)

10. No cutting etc. without permission of the person having control ofsuch land.

(C) RESERVED FORESTS

11. Permits required in reserved forests.

(D) ALIENATED LAND

12. No removal of forest produce except under licence.

PART IV

LIABILITY AND PAYMENT OF ROYALTY

13. Forest produce to be liable to royalty.

14. A premium may be charged.

15. Place, time and manner of payment of royalty.

PART V

CONTROL OF FOREST PRODUCE IN TRANSIT

16. Forest produce to be taken for measurement or check to a checkingstation.

17. Duties of drivers etc. of vehicles.

18. Restriction on transportation of forest produce by night.

19. Export of forest produce.

PART VI

GENERAL

20. Sawmills to be licensed.

21. Licences and sub-licences to be carried.

22. Licences to be returned within 10 days of expiry.

23. Boundaries of licence area to be kept clear.

24. Roads and rentises to be cleared of timber.

25. List of employees.

26. Property marks to be registered.

27. Removal of forest produce after expiry of licence or permit.

27A. Third Schedule Fees.

PART VII

POWERS OF OFFICERS

28. The power to issue licences and sub-licences and to collect forestrevenue.

29. The power to cancel licences and permits.

PART VIII

PENALTIES

30. Offences.

31. Further offences.

FIRST SCHEDULE — FOREST PRODUCE SECONDSCHEDULE — FORMS

THIRD SCHEDULE — FEES

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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

Rules under section 52

FOREST RULES

Commencement: 1st January 1956

PART I

INTRODUCTORY

Citation.

1. These Rules may be cited as the Forest Rules.

Interpretation.

2. In these Rules unless the context otherwise requires —

“Act” means the Forest Act (Chapter 46);

“converted timber” is wood which has been cut, sawn, hewn, split,shaped or fashioned from round timber or poles into pieces intended foruse for any purpose other than as fuel;

“form” means a form in the Second Schedule;

“Identity Card” shall have the same meaning as in the National Registration Act (Chapter 19);

“Mangrove” means all trees belonging to the genera avicennia, bruguiera, ceriops, kandelia, rhizophora, and xylocarpus;

“old forest” means forest that has never been clear-felled before and also secondary forest ( belukar tua ) estimatedto be more than 50 years old.

“a pole” is any section cut from a tree, and having a girth ofless than 3 feet at its larger end, which has not been further prepared for usethan by removal of bark and projecting branches, and which is not intended to besawn into converted timber;

“round timber” is any section cut from a tree, which has not beenprepared for use otherwise than by removal of bark and branches and either roughsquaring or longitudinal division into not more than 4 pieces in order tofacilitate transport or conversion;

“section” means a section of the Act;

“a sawmill” is any machine or collection of machines capable ofbeing used for the mechanical conversion of timber but excludes portablepower-operated chain saws used for cross-cutting timber.

PART II

SHIFTING CULTIVATION

No felling of old forest on State land without permission.

3. No person shall fell old forest on State land for cultivationwithout permission in writing from the Director of Forestry or from the DistrictOfficer.

[S 29/00]

PART III

THE TAKING OF FOREST PRODUCE

(A) STATE LAND

No taking of forest produce except under licence.

4. (1) Subject to the provisions of these Rules, no person shallexcept under and in accordance with the terms and conditions of a licence inForm 1, 2 or 3, issued by a Forest Officer —

(a) fell, cut, tap, or injure by fire or otherwise any tree onState land;

(b) burn to charcoal any timber on State land; or

(c) cut, collect, or remove on or from State land any forest produceincluded in the First Schedule.

(2) The Director of Forestry may with the previous approval of the Ministercause to be sold by public auction or tender the right to cut or collect andremove any specified forest produce on or from any particular area of State landsubject to such conditions as may be specified.

[S 29/00]

Periods and conditions of licences.

5. (1) Licences in Form 1 may be issued and thereafter renewed forany period not exceeding 12 months, or such longer period as the Minister mayapprove.

(2) No such licence shall be transferable and every such licence shall besubject to such conditions, in addition to those provided for by the Act andthese Rules, as the Director of Forestry may cause to be endorsed thereon.

[S 29/00]

(3) Licences in Forms 2 and 3 may be issued and thereafter renewed for anyperiod not exceeding one month in each case and shall not be transferable.

(4) A licence in Form 3 is personal to the holder and may not extend to anyother person whether employed by him or not.

(5) The Director of Forestry may, in his discretion, limit the number oflicences to take forest produce within any area specified by him.

[S 29/00]

Deposit.

6. (1) Before the issue of a licence in Form 1, the applicant shalldeposit with the District Forest Officer such sum of money as the Director ofForestry may require, and such further sums as the Director of Forestry mayrequire during the currency of the licence. Failure to deposit such further sumswill render the licence liable to cancellation.

[S 29/00]

(2) On default being made in the payment at the prescribed time of any moneydue as royalty or otherwise in respect of such licence, the Director of Forestrymay withdraw from the sum or sums deposited as aforesaid and credit to forestrevenue the sum so due, and may prohibit the cutting or removal of forestproduce under the said licence until an equivalent sum has been redeposited.

[S 29/00]

For the purpose of this rule all sums of money deposited in the name of alicensee shall be deemed to have been deposited in respect of each and alllicences held by him.

(3) A licence may be cancelled at any time by the Director of Forestry forbreach or non-compliance with any of its conditions, and in the event of suchcancellation the licensee shall have no claim to the return of any money paid toor deposited with the Government, nor to any damages on account of suchcancellation, nor to any forest produce remaining within the area covered bysuch licence, and the ownership of any forest produce so remainingshall vest in the Government free from all encumbrances.

[S 29/00]

Sub-licences for workmen.

7. (1) When a licensee employs workmen for the purpose of his licencethere may be issued at the discretion of the officer empowered to issue licencesone, and not more than one, sub-licence in Form 4 for each workman soemployed.

(2) Such sub-licence shall bear the name of the workman to whom it is issuedand his Identity Card number, and shall be endorsed by the holder of the mainlicence or his authorised agent who will be held responsible for the acts of thesub-licensee.

(3) No such sub-licence shall —

(a) be transferable;

(b) be issued for a period exceeding 6 months; nor

(c) remain in force after the determination of the licence under whichit was issued.

Prohibition on felling certain trees.

8. (1) Except with the authorisation of the Director of Forestry, noperson shall fell any tree specified in the First Schedule having a girth lessthan the minimum prescribed in that Schedule.

[S 29/00]

(2) No tree of the species Shorea gysbertsiana , and any otherspecies of the genus Shorea that may be notified from time to time,producing illipe nuts, commonly known as engkabang or kawang, may be felled,burned, injured or removed on or from any State land.

(3) No tree of the genus Dyera , commonly known as jelutong, shallbe felled, burned, injured or removed on or from any State land, and the tappingof jelutong trees shall be subject to such conditions as the Director ofForestry may from time to time impose.

[S 29/00]

Privileges to natives of Brunei Darussalam.

9. (1) Any native of Brunei Darussalam may cut and remove from Stateland, or with the permission of the owner from alienated land, any timber, attapor other forest produce, which may be necessary for the construction or repairof a dwelling house for the permanent abode of himself and his family, for theconstruction or repair of temporary huts on any land lawfully occupied by him,for the construction or repair of his boats, landing places and fishing stakes,for the fencing of his land, for firewood for his own domestic consumption, orfor the construction, repair or upkeep of any work for the common benefit of thenative and other inhabitants of the locality in which he lives.

(2) Forest produce for the purposes stated in paragraph (1) above may betaken free by individuals for their own use.

(B) RESERVED LAND

(OTHER THAN RESERVED FORESTS)

No cutting etc. without permission of the person having control of suchland.

10. (1) No person shall tap, cut, saw, convert, or remove any forestproduce included in the First Schedule on or from any land (not being arereserved forest) which has been by notification in the Gazette reservedunder the provisions of any law for a public purpose or for a residentialreserve, except under and in accordance with the terms and conditions of alicence in Form 1, 2 or 3 issued by a Forest Officer with the permission of theperson having control of such reserved land.

(2) All forest produce removed from such land shall be liable to royalty atthe rates prescribed in the First Schedule.

(C) RESERVED FORESTS

Permits required in reserved forests.

11. (1) Permission to do within a reserved forest any act authorisedby the Director of Forestry under paragraph (c) of section 21 shall begiven by means of a Permit which shall be subject to such conditions as theDirector of Forestry may consider it necessary either generally or specificallyto impose.

[S 29/00]

(2) The permits referred to in paragraph (1) may be in the form of a licence in Form 1, 2 or 3, or in a special form to be drawn up by the Director of Forestry for a particular area.

[S 29/00]

(3) The permits referred to in paragraph (1) shall not be transferable andshall not be granted or renewed for a period longer than one year at a timeexcept with the permission of the Minister.

(4) Any act done under a permit shall be subject to the provisions of the Act and Rules, except in so far as the said Rules are inconsistent with the conditions of the permit.

(D) ALIENATED LAND

No removal of forest produce except under licence.

12. (1) Subject to any legal or customary right no forest produceincluded in the First Schedule shall be removed from any alienated land exceptunder and in accordance with the terms and conditions of a licence in Form 1, 2or 3 issued by a Forest Officer.

(2) A licence issued under paragraph (1) may be issued to the owner of suchland, or, with his consent, to any other person and forest produce removedthereunder shall be liable to royalty at the rates prescribed in the FirstSchedule.

PART IV

LIABILITY AND PAYMENT OF ROYALTY

Forest produce to be liable to royalty.

13. All forest produce, cut, sawn, converted, collected, or removedunder a licence in Form 1, 2 or 3 issued under rule 4, 10 or 12, or a permitissued under rule 11, shall be liable to royalty at the rates prescribed in theFirst Schedule:

Provided that no royalty shall be payable on any such produce —

(a) which not having been removed from the area to which thelicence refers, may be declared by a Forest Officer not below the rank of ForestRanger to be unsaleable by reason of its quality and situation; or

(b) which has been taken under a licence in Form 2 or 3 issued byor with the authority of the Director of Forestry for the purpose of any work ofpublic utility or for any other purpose specified in such licence to be freefrom payment of royalty.

[S 29/00]

A premium may be charged.

14. The Director of Forestry may with the approval of His Majesty inCouncil charge a monthly fee or premium in addition to, or in lieu of, royaltyfor the right to take forest produce under licence in Form 1.

[S 29/00]

Place, time and manner of payment of royalty.

15. (1) Royalty accrued and other payments due under these Rulesshall be payable at such times and place and in such manner as may be specifiedin the licence, or if no time, place, or manner of payment be so specified, thenon demand made by the District Forest Officer or the Director of Forestry.

[S 29/00]

(2) In the event of any dispute over the correct name of any forest produceor class under which royalty is to be charged, the decision of the Director ofForestry shall be final.

[S 29/00]

PART V

CONTROL OF FOREST PRODUCE IN TRANSIT

Forest produce to be taken for measurement or check to a checkingstation.

16. All forest produce cut or collected under licence in Form 1, 2 or3, or under permit within a reserved forest, shall be taken to the nearestchecking station, or to such other place as may be specified on the licence orpermit or prescribed by the Director of Forestry, to be measured, weighed orcounted, and shall not be removed thence nor moved past any other checkingstation or Customs barrier unless it be accompanied by a removal pass in Form 5,or such variant as may be approved by the Director of Forestry and signed bysuch person as the Director of Forestry may authorise in that behalf and unlessit bear, if it be timber, a Government hammer mark indicating that it has beenassessed for royalty and any other charges to which it may be liable:

Provided that —

[S 29/00]

(a) for forest produce taken under licence in Form 2 or 3 thelicence itself shall be taken as the equivalent of a removal pass; and

(b) the Director of Forestry may exempt from all or any of theprovisions of this rule any timber on which he is satisfied that royalty hasbeen previously paid, while such timber is in transit between a seller and abuyer in the ordinary course of trade.

[S 29/00]

Duties of drivers etc. of vehicles.

17. (1) The driver or person in charge of any vehicle, boat, or raftcontaining forest produce shall —

(a) stop at every checking station on the route by which suchforest produce is conveyed and at any time or place if called upon to do so byany Forest Officer, Police Officer or Customs Officer;

(b) surrender on demand, in exchange for a duplicate removal pass issued by any officer referred to in subparagraph (a) , any removal pass as is referred to in rule 16; and

(c) render such assistance as may be necessary to enable an adequate examination and measurement of such produce by such officer.

(2) If there is reason to believe that any money is payable to Government inrespect of any forest produce in transit such produce may be detained at achecking station or such other place as the detaining officer may direct untilsuch money has been paid or until enquiry regarding its origin has beenmade.

(3) Forest produce removed from alienated land by virtue of any legal orcustomary right vested in the owner of such land shall be accom-panied by a passfrom the owner of

such land, stating his name and the locality of the land, which shall behanded to the officer in charge of a checking station.

Restriction on transportation of forest produce by night.

18. No forest produce shall be moved between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7a.m. unless it is accompanied by a valid removal pass or duplicate removal passas is referred to in rules 16 and 17 and, if such forest produce be timber,unless it also bears the Government hammer mark referred to in rule 16.

Export of forest produce.

19. The export of timber from Brunei Darussalam is prohibited exceptunder the terms and conditions of an export permit issued by the Director ofForestry:

[S 29/00]

Provided that in his discretion the Director of Forestry may issue an export permit for highly processed or finished timber products and also such categories of timber which in his opinion are unsuitable for further processing within Brunei Darussalam by reason of species or size.

[S 29/00]

PART VI

GENERAL

Sawmills to be licensed.

20. (1) No person shall erect or operate a sawmill except under andin accordance with the terms and conditions of a licence in Form 6 issued by theDirector of Forestry.

[S 29/00]

(2) The fee payable for such licence shall be $20 per sawbench perannum.

(3) For the purposes of this rule a “sawbench” is any bench ormachine that will take a circular saw of 48² diameter or larger, or a bandor frame saw.

(4) On the erection or operation of a sawmill without a licence in Form 6 oron breach of any condition to which the licence in Form 6 is expressed to besubject the Director of Forestry may apply to a magistrate for an order in Courtto close the sawmill concerned and the magistrate shall, on being satisfiedthere is sufficient cause, thereupon order the proprietor to close the sawmill sine die or for such time as he shall in his discretion consider fit.

[S 29/00]

Licences and sub-licences to be carried.

21. (1) The person named in any licence in Form 2 or 3 shall keepsuch licence upon his person while at work, and at other times have it in hispossession or at his workshed or usual place of residence.

(2) The person named in any sub-licence shall keep it either on his personor at the place where he sleeps.

Licences to be returned within 10 days of expiry.

22. (1) The person named in any licence or permit shall return it tothe office of issue within 10 days of expiry thereof together with allsub-licences issued in connection with such licence.

(2) A penalty not exceeding $50 may be inflicted by the Director of Forestryfor failure to comply with this rule, and this penalty shall be in addition toany compensation paid or fine inflicted by a court for taking forest producewithout a valid licence or permit.

[S 29/00]

Boundaries of licence area to be kept clear.

23. Every holder of a licence in Form 1 or permit to take forestproduce shall ensure that the boundaries of his area are clearly defined and maintained on the ground to the satisfaction of the District ForestOfficer.

Roads and rentises to be cleared of timber.

24. A holder of a licence or permit to take timber who fells trees, orwhose sub-licensees fell trees, across any public road or renties forming theboundary of a reserved forest or compartment of a reserved forest shall clearall such trees or portions of trees off the road or rentis to the satisfactionof the Director of Forestry; and if he fails to do so notice may be served onhim to carry out the work by a certain date, and if he fails to comply with thenotice the Director of Forestry may employ labour to do the work and debit thecost to the licensee’s account.

[S 29/00]

List of employees.

25. (1) The headman of every body of persons living or working together in any occupation having for its object the cutting orremoval of timber or forest produce under licence shall cause a working board,containing a full and correct list of all persons so employed or engaged, to beexhibited in a conspicuous place in the main entrance to the house or workshed,and every person whose name is contained in the said list shall be provided witha licence, or sub-licence.

(2) Every name appearing in such lists, licence or sub-licence as are referred to in paragraph (1) shall be written in Roman script and, in the case of a Chinese name, in both Roman script and Chinese characters, and every such list, licence or sub-licence shall specify the Identity Card number of every person named therein.

Property marks to be registered.

26. (1) Private marks placed on timber by licence or permit holdersof designs approved by the Director of Forestry may be registered for a periodof not more than a year at one time in the office of the District Forest Officerwithin whose jurisdiction the marks are to be used.

[S 29/00]

(2) The Director of Forestry may at any time cancel the registration of suchmarks as are referred to in paragraph (1), and may, at his discretion, impose afee of not more than $15 for their registration and renewal.

[S 29/00]

Removal of forest produce after expiry of licence or permit.

27. For the purpose of section 48 if, on the expiry of a licence orpermit, the holder thereof requests permission to remove any forest produce cutor collected before the expiry thereof, the Director of Forestry or the Officerwho issued the licence or permit may endorse upon the licence or permit, as thecase may be, the words “extended till (date) for removal only” andsuch endorsement shall entitle the holder of the licence or permit to removeforest produce as aforesaid until the date specified, but no forest produceshall be freshly cut or felled after the original date of expiry of the licenceor permit.

[S 29/00]

Third Schedule Fees. [S 30/00]

27A. The fees prescribed in the second column of the Third Scheduleshall be payable in respect of to the services specified in the first columnthereof.

PART VII

POWERS OF OFFICERS

The power to issue licences and sub-licences and to collect forestrevenue.

28. (1) The power to issue licences in Form 2 or 3 or sub-licences inForm 4 and to collect forest revenue may be exercised by any Forest Officer incharge of a forest checking station.

(2) Licences in Form 1, and permits in forest reserves shall be issued only by the Director of Forestry.

[S 29/00]

The power to cancel licences and permits.

29. Breach of any provision of these Rules or of any condition towhich a licence or permit is expressed to be subject shall, in addition to anyother penalty provided by the Act or by these Rules, render the licence orpermit liable to cancellation by order of the Director of Forestry, and shall,if the Director of Forestry so directs, render liable to confiscation any forestproduce taken under such licence at the time of, or subsequently to, suchbreach.

[S 29/00]

PART VIII

PENALTIES

Offences. [S 30/00]

30. Whoever —

(a) fells old forest in contravention of rule 3;

(b) fells, cuts, taps or injures any tree or burns charcoal, orcuts, collects or removes any forest produce, in contravention of rule 4;

(c) fells, burns, injures, taps or removes any tree in contraventionof rule 8;

(d) taps, cuts, saws, converts or removes any forest produce on orfrom reserved land in contravention of rule 10;

(e) removes any forest produce from alienated land in contravention of rule 12 or paragraph (3) of rule 17;

(f) fails to stop at a checking station in contravention of paragraph (1) of rule 17;

(g) moves forest produce by night in contravention of rule 18;

(h ) fails to observe the provisions for keeping licences in Form 2or 3 and sub- licences in contravention of rule 21; or

(i) fails to maintain a list of employees in contravention of rule25,

shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine and imprisonment for 5years.

[S 30/00]

Further offences. [S 30/00]

31. Whoever contravenes the provisions of rule 16, 19 or 20 shall beguilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine and imprisonment for 5 years.

[S 30/00]

FIRST SCHEDULE

FOREST PRODUCE

(rule 4(1) (c) )

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Class I(i) TREES & TIMBERS

(A) HEAVY HARDWOODS

(B) KAPOR BUKIT (Dryobalanops spp. except Kapor paya Drobalanops Rappa) Rateof royalty: $15 per ton converted and $7.50 per ton round.

(C) RAMIN (Gonystylus sp.)

Rate of royalty: $16 per ton converted and $8 per ton round.

(D) TULONG (Agathis sp.) (Trade name — Bindang)

Rate of royalty: $16 per ton converted and $8 per ton round.

(E) ALL OTHER TIMBERS

Rate of royalty: $12 per ton converted and $6 per ton round.

Class I(ii) POLES (any species)

2 feet and not more than 3 feet in girth ..................................$12.00 per 100

1 foot and less than 2 feet in girth .......................................... $ 8.00 per 100

Less than one foot in girth ...................................................$ 2.00 per 100

Class I(iii) NIBONG

Round .................................................................................... $ 4.00 per 100

Split .........................................................................................80 per 100

Class I(iv) SHINGLES (ATTAPS)

Shingles of class IA timber .................................................... $ 1.70 per 1000

Shingles of other timber ........................................................$ 1.00 per 1000

Class II

Firewood (Stacked)

Mangrove and Casuarina spp. ............................................... 2 cents per cu. ft.

Other species ......................................................................... 1 cent per cu. ft.

Charcoal. Mangrove .............................................................. 30 cents per pikul

Bark. Mangrove ..................................................................... 20 cents per pikul

Minor Forest Produce

Getah jelutong, and other kinds of getah as fixed by the Director of Forestry ......................................................... 10% ad valorem

Rattans ...................................................................................50 cents per pikul

PRODUCE TAKEN UNDER LICENCE FORM 3

(A) Timber

(a) Logs, sawn and hewn stock ............................................$5.00 per mensem

(b) Pole .................................................................................$2.00 per mensem

(B) Nibong .................................................................................... $2.00 per mensem

(C) Firewood

(a) Mangrove and Casuarina (Ru) ........................................$5.00 per mensem

(b) Other sorts .......................................................................$2.50 per mensem

(D) Rattans .................................................................................... $1.00per mensem

SECOND SCHEDULE

FORMS

(rule 2)

FORM 1

FOREST DEPARTMENT, BRUNEI DARUSSALAM LICENCE TO TAKE FOREST PRODUCE

(Not Transferable)

No. of Licence ............................................................

This licence authorises .....................................................................................................of .................................................................... to thewithin the locality hereunder specified,

in the District of ........................................ and move to theprescribed place of examination examination such forest produce as is hereunderdescribed during a period of ........................ months from the datehereof, subject to the provisions of the Forest Act (Chapter 46) and any rulesmade thereunder.

Locality ............................................................................................................................

...................................................................................................................................................

...................................................................................................................................................

Produce

Minimum size of trees .................................................................................................The kind .......................................................................................................................Time when royalty is payable ......................................................................................Place where royalty is payable ....................................................................................Place of examination.....................................................................................................Date of issue ................................................................................................................Date of expiration ........................................................................................................

................................................................ ForestOfficer

Note — This licence is issued subject also to the special conditions,if any, endorsed on the back thereof.

FORM 2

LICENCE TO TAKE FOREST PRODUCE ON PREPAYMENT OF ROYALTY

(Not Transferable)

Issued under the Forest Rules

No. of Licence ............................................................

This licence authorises .....................................................................................................of .......................................................... to take fromwithin the locality hereunder specified such forest produce as is hereunder specified and on which royalty has been prepaid vide receipt No. .....................................................................

The kind ............................................................. Thequantity .......................................................

Date of issue .......................................................

Date of expiration ...............................................

................................................................ ForestOfficer

FORM 3

LICENCE TO TAKE FOREST PRODUCE ON PAYMENT OF MONTHLY FEE

(Not Transferable)

Issued under the Forest Rules

No. of Licence ............................................................

This licence authorises .....................................................................................................of .......................................... to take from State land withinthe locality hereunder specified such forest produce as is hereunder describedduring a period of ............................... months from the date hereofsubject to the provisions of the Forest Rules.

Locality ................................................................Produce ................................................................

Fee $ ................... paid vide Receipt No. ...........

................................................................ ForestOfficer

FORM 4

SUB-LICENCE UNDER LICENCE/PERMIT No. .....................................

(Not Transferable)

The Forest Rules

No. of Licence ............................................................

This Sub-licence authorises ..............................................................................................of ........................................................................... to take, as agent of the holder of licence/

permit No. ......................................................... andsubject to the terms thereof, such forest produce as is described in the saidlicence or permit.

Issued free.

Date of issue ........................................................

* Date of expiration .............................................

................................................................ ForestOfficer

*Not more than 6 months after date of issue.

FORM 5

REMOVAL-PASS FOR FOREST PRODUCE TAKEN UNDER LICENCE OR PERMIT

The Forest Rules

No. ........................................

This Pass authorises .......................................................................... toremove past the

Customs Station at ................................. the forest producehereunder described, which has

been taken under licence/permit No. ............................. andbelongs to ................................

Vehicle or Boat No. .............................. Destination ................................ Date .......................................................

................................................................ ForestOfficer

This Pass must be kept in the possession of the driver of the vehicle orperson in charge of the forest produce.

FORM 6

LICENCE TO OPERATE A SAWMILL ISSUED UNDER THE FOREST RULES

[S 29/00]

No. of Licence ........................................

This licence authorises .....................................................................................................of ...................................................................... tooperate a sawmill, as specified hereunder, for a period of one year, subject toany rule or order made under the Forest Act (Chapter 46). I Site

(a) District .............................................................................................................

(b) Site ...................................................................................................................

(c) Title to site .......................................................................................................

(d) Description of, and title to log ponds ...............................................................

II Description of Sawmill

(a) Type of mill .....................................................................................................

(b) Type, make, horse-power and number of engine .............................................

(c) Saw benches —

(1) ...............................................................................................................

(2) ...............................................................................................................

(3) ...............................................................................................................

(4) ...............................................................................................................

(5) ...............................................................................................................

(6) ...............................................................................................................

(d) Possible annual output (in tons) .......................................................................

III Conditions

1. The licensee shall pay a fee of $20 per year (or for any part of a year)for each saw-bench.

2. No machinery shall be added to the mill and no structural changes madewithout the written permission of the Director of Forestry.

3. In any year the output of the mill shall not fall below 50% of thepossible annual output as estimated above.

4. This licence does not entitle the licensee to any rights to cut or collect timer.

5. Special conditions —

...........................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................

6. In the event of any breach of condition 1, 2, 3 or 5 above, the Directorof

Forestry may refuse to renew this licence.

Date of issue .................................................. Date ofexpiry ...........................

Annual fee $ .......................................................

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Director of Forestry,
Brunei Darussalam.

Constitution of forest reserves under section 4

NOTE. There have been constituted forest reserves known by the names below, the boundaries whereof and the rights to which they are subjectbeing set out in the Subsidiary Legislation referred to below.

THIRD SCHEDULE

FEES

(rule 27A)

[S 30/00]

1. Administration

SERVICES FEES

(a) Contractor registration fee ....... $10.00

(b) Quotation form ....... $5.00

(c) Tender forms

(i) for tenders below $100,000.00 ....... $10.00

(ii) for tenders above $100,000.00 ....... $15.00

2. Import Permits

(a) by lorries ....... $20.00

(b) by barges ....... $40.00

3. Timber preservation

(a) for Government Agencies ....... $50.00/cubic metre

(b) for public ....... $75.00/cubic metre

4. Kiln drying ....... $100.00/cubic metre

5. National Park

(a) Entrance fee ....... $5.00

(b) Park certificate ....... $5.00

(c) Park accommodation —

Chalet Type A ....... $15.00

Chalet Type B ....... $10.00

Chalet Type C ....... $8.00

(d) Linen, pillowcases, blankets, and the like ....... $10.00

6. Application for new concessions ....... $100.00

7. Tree marking ....... $50.00

8. Boundry survey and demarcation of new concession area ....... $500.00

SERVICES FEES

9. Form II ....... $10.00

10. Sub-licence ....... $2.00

11. Issue and renewal of sawmill; furniture maill, being a machine or group of machines capable of being used for further processing of timber, rattan or bamboo into furniture or furniture arts; woodworking mill, being a machine or group of machines capable of being used for further processing of converted timber, rattan and bamboo into finished or semi- finished products other than rough sawn timber; preservation; and kiln drying plant licences, being a licence for a chamber capable of conditioning timber into the desired level of moisture content through the application of thermal, electrical, solar and chemical processes ....... Discretionary

12. Issue and renewal of logging licence ....... $100.00

13. Use of Bakau landing area

(a) for Permit holders (annual rental) ....... $500.00

(b) for importers (per landing) ....... $100.00

14. Sale of wood samples

(a) loose samples (minimum set of 5) ....... $10.00

(b) deluxe set (set approximately 30) ....... $80.00