FORESTRY REGULATIONS

FORESTRY REGULATIONS

FORESTRY REGULATIONS

(Cap. 96, section 3)

[30 July 1937.1

1. These regulations may be cited as the Forestry Regulations.

2. No person shall without lawful excuse sell, offer for sale, or

have in his possession or under his custody or control any portion of

any of the following plants


NAME ENGLISH CHINESE CHINESE
1. Fern a, L Chau
or Lei


2. Camellia, All species Camellia ;l, 9 9 i E Kok Chung Heung
Kong Fa

3. Chinese New Year Chung
Flower

4. Gardenia 1149- Pak Shim
(jasminoides)
5. Illicium, All species Star-anise Kok Chung Heung
Kong Pat Kok
6. Iris Hong Kong Iris Yuen Mi
7. Lung Fa
8. All Myrtle M, Kok Chung Heung
species Kong Mi
9. Lily III Pak Hop

10. Wong Tang Fa

11. Magnolia, All species Magnolia 1 191 Kok Chung Yuk
Ye Hop
12. Magnolia k191 Heung Kong Yuk

13. Magnolia 1~~ 711: Heung Kong Hom
Siu
14. Orchid, All species Orchid Kok Chung Fa
15. Sha Fa

16. Chinese Bell fit
flower or
Hong Kong
Harebell
17. Hog-plum Ngan
18. Ground Rattan Tsung Shu
Cane
19. IT, 9. Yeung Chung
20. Rhododendron, All Azalea Kok Chung To
species Kun
21. A Shu





3. Regulation 2 shall not apply to the following-

(a) whole plants which were grown outside the Colony, and
which were imported into the Colony as whole plants;

(b)portions of plants which were grown in private gardens and
which were picked with the consent of the owner or occupier
of such gardens.

4. Except with the consent in writing of the Forestry Officer, and in
accordance with such consent, no person shall keep goats.

5. Every request for the consent referred to in regulation 4 shall be
in writing and shall state the maximum number of goats proposed to be
kept, and whether the goats will be kept and fed within fenced or
enclosed private premises, or tethered therein, exclusively, or will or may
range or wander beyond private premises. Such further particulars as
may be required by the Forestry Officer shall be furnished to him.

6. It shall be lawful for the Forestry Officer, in any consent given
by him under these regulations, to limit and prescribe areas within
which the applicant's goats may range or wander for food, to attach
conditions to the consent, and also, without prejudice to the provisions
of regulation 8, to limit the duration of the consent.

7. Every person who. being a grantee of a consent as aforesaid, is
required by law to obtain a licence or permit from the Urban Council, or
other authority, to keep the goats to which the consent relates shall
transmit such consent to such authority with any application for such
licence or permit.

8. It shall be lawful for the Forestry Officer, at any time, to withdraw
any consent given by him under these regulations if, in his opinion, the
goats to which the consent relates have injured or are likely to injure
trees, shrubs, or other plants on unleased Crown land, or if, in his
opinion, injury. to such trees, shrubs or other plants has been or is
likely to be done to provide the goats with food.

9. Every owner of goats, and every person having charge of goats,
shall take all steps necessary to prevent such goats from doing injury to
trees, shrubs, or other plants on any unleased Crown land other than
within the area (if any) limited and prescribed as aforesaid for the
ranging and wandering of his goats for food.

10. The area known as Prohibited Area No. 1 shown

on a map deposited at the office of the Agriculture and Fisheries
Department and thereon marked 'Mount 1, declared a prohibited
area under section 12(1) of the Ordinance.

11. The area containing approximately 220 hectares situate
between Kowloon Reservoir and the Kowloon-Canton Railway near Sha
Tin, shown on a map deposited at the office of the





Agriculture and Fisheries Department and thereon marked---Prohibited
cultivation of tung oil trees', is declared a prohibited area under
section 12(1) of the Ordinance.

12. (1) Any person who acts in contravention of regulation 2 shall
be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of $250.

(2) A magistrate may forfeit any severed plant or portion of a plant
with regard to which any contravention of regulation 2 has been
committed.
11 of 1937. First Schedule. G.N. 744/37. 6 of 1948. G.N.A. 2/49. G.N.A. 75/51. L.N. 60/81. G.N. 744/37. 6 of 1948, s. 6. 6 of 1948, s. 6. 6 of 1948, s. 6. 6 of 1948, s. 6. 6 of 1948, s. 6. G.N.A. 2/49. L.N. 60/81. G.N.A. 75/51.

11 of 1937. First Schedule. G.N. 744/37. 6 of 1948. G.N.A. 2/49. G.N.A. 75/51. L.N. 60/81. G.N. 744/37. 6 of 1948, s. 6. 6 of 1948, s. 6. 6 of 1948, s. 6. 6 of 1948, s. 6. 6 of 1948, s. 6. G.N.A. 2/49. L.N. 60/81. G.N.A. 75/51.

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