PLANTS ORDINANCE, 1920

PLANTS ORDINANCE, 1920

No. 11 of 1920.

Av. Ordiance to provide for the protection of trees, shrubs
and other plants

[19th November, 1920.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Plants Ordinance,
-1920.

2.--(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to
make such regulations as he shall think expedient for the
purpose of protecting trees, shrubs, and other plants from
destruction, injury, or removal.

(2) In any such regulations the on-us of proof may be
thrown upon the defendant in any case in which the governor
in Council may think proper.

(3) All regulations rnade under this Ordinance shall be
laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first
meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of
the making of such regulations, and if a resolution is passed
at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after
such regulations have been laid on the table of the said
Council resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded,
or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation
shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be
deemed to be rescinded, or amended, as the case may be, as
from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of
such resolution.

3.-(1) Every person who contravenes any regulation
made under this Ordinance shall upon summary conviction
be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

(2). It shall be lawful for a magistrate to forfeit any severed
plant or portion of a plant with regard to which any
contravention of any such regulation shall have been
committed.

No. 12 of 1920, incorporated in No. 4 of 1897.
[Originally No. 11 of 1920.] Short title. Regulations. Penalty and forfeiture.

[Originally No. 11 of 1920.] Short title. Regulations. Penalty and forfeiture.

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