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| (1) Nothing in section 6 or section 7 shall be deemed to prohibit any act done in accordance with any regulation made by the Minister1 or with the permission in writing of a forest officer empowered to grant such permission. |
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| (2) The Minister1 may from time to time make and when made may revoke, vary, or amend regulations with regard to reserved forests or with regard to any particular reserved forest for any of the purposes mentioned in section 20 (1). |
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| (3) The forest officer granting any permission required by the preceding provisions of this section or by any regulation made thereunder, may charge and recover a fee in respect of such permission according to such rates as may from time to time be prescribed by the Conservator of Forests with the sanction of the Minister. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts