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FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953

FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - LONG TITLE

An Act for the advancement of forestry and for purposes connected
with that matter.
[17th February 1953]
Responsibility of Ministry for forestry in Northern Ireland.

FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 1

1. The Ministry of Agriculture (in this Act referred to as "the
Ministry") shall be responsible for promoting in Northern Ireland the
interests of forestry, the development of afforestation, the
production and supply of timber and the establishment and maintenance
of adequate reserves of growing trees, and for those purposes shall
exercise the functions conferred on the Ministry by this Act.

FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 2
Powers of Ministry, subject to approval of Ministry of Finance.

2.(1) The Ministry may, with the approval of the Ministry of
Finance

(a)purchase or take on lease or otherwise acquire by agreement any
land which in the opinion of the Ministry

(i)is suitable for forestry; or

(ii)is needed for purposes connected with forestry or with the
management of any wood or forest; or

<(iii)must necessarily be acquired as being ancillary or supplemental to any land acquired for any of the purposes mentioned in sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) of this paragraph;

(b)sell or let any land acquired under or by virtue of this Act
or any enactment repealed by this Act, or exchange any such land
for any other land and (where requisite on any such exchange) pay
or receive money for equality of exchange, or grant rights on or
over any such land;

(c)erect such buildings and execute such works as the Ministry may
consider necessary for purposes connected with forestry on any land
acquired by the Ministry;

(d)purchase or take on lease, or otherwise acquire by agreement the
right to possession of, any buildings or works required for any
function of the Ministry under this Act, and sell or let or
otherwise part with the possession of any buildings or works no
longer required for any of those purposes;

(e)make, on such terms and subject to such conditions as the
Ministry may think fit, grants to any persons in respect of the
afforestation (including the clearing, draining, fencing, planting or
replanting, and maintenance) of land owned by those persons;

(f)establish and carry on or aid in the establishment and carrying
on of woodland industries;

(g)promote and develop instruction and training in forestry by
establishing or aiding schools or other educational institutions or
in such other manner as the Ministry may think fit.

(2) For the purpose of making grants under paragraph (e) of the
preceding sub-section the Ministry may treat any person who appears
to the Ministry to have a substantial estate or interest in any
land as the owner of that land.

Subs. (3) spent

FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 3
Further powers of Ministry.

3.(1) The Ministry may

(a)manage, plant and otherwise utilise for purposes connected with
forestry any land acquired by the Ministry;

(b)purchase or otherwise acquire standing timber, and sell or
otherwise dispose of any timber belonging to the Ministry or, on
such terms as may be agreed upon, to any other person, and
generally promote the supply, sale, utilisation and conversion of
timber;

(c)undertake or give assistance or advice in relation to, on such
terms and conditions as may be agreed upon, the clearing, drainage,
fencing, planting or replanting, maintenance, utilisation, management
or supervision of any wood or forest or any land suitable for
forestry;

(d)make or assist in the making of such inquiries, experiments and
research as the Ministry may think desirable for the purpose of
promoting forestry and the teaching of forestry, and publish or
assist in the publication of or otherwise make known the result of
such inquiries, experiments or research;

(e)collect or assist in the collection of, disseminate or assist in
the dissemination of, information which the Ministry may think
important for the purpose of promoting forestry and the teaching of
forestry, or which is, in the opinion of the Ministry, likely to
arouse, stimulate or increase public interest in forestry or woodland
industries:

(f)undertake the collection, preparation, publication and distribution
of statistics relating to forestry or to any wood or forest or
land suitable for forestry;

(g)make or assist in the making of such inquiries as the Ministry
may think necessary for the purpose of securing an adequate supply
of timber, or of promoting the sale, utilisation or conversion of
timber, or of fostering the establishment or extension of woodland
industries.

(2) Where the Ministry requests any person to furnish or permit the
collection of any information or statistics relating to any of the
matters referred to in paragraphs (f) and (g) of sub-section (1) of
this section, and that person

(a)fails to comply with the request of the Ministry, he shall,
unless he proves that he had a reasonable excuse for his failure,
be guilty of an offence;

(b)in purported compliance with the request of the Ministry,
knowingly or recklessly makes a statement or gives information which
is false in a material particular, he shall, without prejudice to
his liability under any other enactment, be guilty of an offence.

(3) Any person who is guilty of an offence under this section
shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not
exceeding ten pounds.

FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 4
Restriction of felling.

4.(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a person shall not
fell any growing tree unless a licence granted by the Ministry
under this Act is in force authorising the felling.

(2) A licence shall not be necessary for

(a)the topping or lopping of a tree or the trimming or laying of
a hedge;

(b)the felling of a tree of a diameter not exceeding [seven
centimetres] or, in the case of coppice or underwood, of a diameter
not exceeding [fifteen centimetres];

(c)the felling of a fruit tree;

(d)the felling of a tree standing or growing on land comprised in
an orchard, garden or churchyard;

(e)the felling of a tree for the prevention of danger or for the
prevention or abatement of a nuisance;

(f)the felling of a tree in compliance with any obligation imposed
by or under any enactment;

(g)the felling by or at the request of any electricity undertakers
of a tree which obstructs or interferes with the construction,
maintenance or working of any main transmission or other electric
line, or which will interfere with the maintenance or working of
such a line;

(h)the felling of a tree where the Minister responsible for any
aerodrome has certified that the tree obstructs the approach of
aircraft to, or their departure from, that aerodrome or hinders the
safe and efficient use of air navigational or aircraft landing
installations;

(i)the felling by statutory undertakers of a tree on land in their
occupation which obstructs the construction of any works required for
the purposes of the undertaking by those undertakers, or of a tree
which interferes with the maintenance or operation of any works
vested in those undertakers;

<[(j)the felling of a tree by the Ministry in the course of performing any of its functions under the Drainage (Northern Ireland) Order 1973;]

(k)the felling of a tree where the felling is immediately required
for the purposes of carrying out development authorised under the
Planning Acts (Northern Ireland), 1931 and 1944;

(l)the felling by any person of a tree of a diameter not exceeding
[ten centimetres] growing on land in his occupation or in the
occupation of any tenant of his where the felling is carried out
in order to improve the growth of other trees;

<(m)the felling by any person of a tree on land in his occupation, so long as

(i)the aggregate cubic content of trees which are felled by that
person without a licence (other than trees the felling of which
without a licence is authorised by any other provision of this Act)
in any quarter does not exceed [thirty cubic metres]; and

(ii)the aggregate cubic content of the trees so felled which are
sold, whether before or after felling, by that person (other than
trees excluded from the aggregate referred to in sub-paragraph (i)
of this paragraph) in any quarter does not exceed [five cubic
metres], or such larger quantity as the Ministry may allow that
person to sell.

(3) The Ministry may by regulations provide for such additional
exceptions from the provisions of sub-section (1) of this section as
may be specified in the regulations; and in particular such
regulations may direct that sub-section (2) of this section shall
have effect as if for any reference to a diameter or to a number
of [cubic metres] there were substituted a reference to such larger
diameter or number as may be specified in the regulations.

(4) The Ministry may by regulations

(a)direct that paragraph (b) of sub-section (2) of this section
shall have effect as if for the reference to a diameter not
exceeding [fifteen centimetres] there were substituted a reference to
such smaller diameter as may be specified in the regulations;

(b)restrict or suspend the exception contained in paragraph (m) of
sub-section (2) of this section and in particular may direct that
the said paragraph shall have effect as if for the reference to
any number of [cubic metres] there were substituted a reference to
such smaller number as may be specified in the regulations.

(5) In this section the following expressions have the meanings
hereby assigned to them, that is to say:

"aerodrome" means any area of land or water designed, equipped, set
apart or commonly used for affording facilities for the landing and
departure of aircraft;

"cubic content" means the cubic content of a tree as ascertained in
such manner as the Ministry may by regulations prescribe;

"diameter" means the diameter of a tree measured over the bark at
a point [1.3 metres] above the ground level;

"quarter" means the period of three months beginning with the first
day of January, the first day of April, the first day of July, or
the first day of October in any year;

"statutory undertakings" means persons authorised by any enactment to
carry on any railway, light railway, tramway, road transport, water
transport, canal, inland navigation, dock, harbour, lighthouse or
power undertaking, or any undertaking for the supply of electricity,
gas, hydraulic power or water.

FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 5
Penalty for contravention of section four.

5.(1) Any person who fells any tree in contravention of section
four of this Act shall be guilty of an offence under this section
and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not
exceeding ten pounds or twice the sum which appears to the court
to be the value of the tree, whichever is the higher.

(2) Proceedings in respect of an offence under this section may be
brought within six months of the discovery of the offence by an
officer or member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary or by an officer
or servant of the Ministry, but shall not be instituted more than
two years after the date of the offence.

FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 6
Felling licences.

6.(1) An application for a licence under this Act authorising the
felling of any tree (in this Act referred to as "a felling
licence") shall be made to the Ministry in such form as may be
prescribed and the Ministry, after considering the application, shall

(a)grant the licence; or

(b)grant the licence subject to any conditions authorised by
sub-section (2) of this section; or

(c)refuse to grant a licence for the reason authorised by
sub-section (3) of this section.

(2) The Ministry may grant a felling licence subject to such
conditions as the Ministry and the applicant may agree to be
expedient for securing the stocking or restocking with trees of the
land on which the felling takes place, or such other land as may
be agreed upon between the Ministry and the applicant, and the
maintenance of the trees in accordance with the rules and practice
of good forestry for a period not exceeding five years.

(3) Where an application for a felling licence is made in respect
of an immature tree, the Ministry may refuse to grant a licence in
respect of that tree if it considers that the felling would not be
in accordance with the rules and practice of good forestry.

(4) Where the grant of a felling licence in respect of any tree
is refused the Ministry shall give notice in writing to the
applicant of the grounds for the refusal.

(5) A felling licence shall continue in force for such period (not
being less than one year from the date on which it is granted) as
may be specified in the licence.

Subs.(6) spent

(7) In this section the expression "immature tree" means a tree
which in the opinion of the Ministry is growing and will continue
to grow at an economic rate.

FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 7
Appeals against Ministry's decision.

7.(1) Any person who is aggrieved by the refusal of the Ministry
to grant a felling licence in respect of any tree may, within one
month of receiving from the Ministry notice in writing of that
refusal, appeal, in accordance with such county court rules as may
be made in that behalf, to the county court having jurisdiction in
the area in which the tree to which the application related is
growing and that court, whose decision shall be final, shall have
power to confirm, modify or reverse the decision of the Ministry.

(2) Where the Ministry refuses to grant a felling licence in
respect of a number of trees growing in a wood or forest which is
situate partly in the area of one civil bill division and partly
in the area of another, the Ministry may direct that for the
purposes of any appeal against the refusal of the Ministry, the
whole of that wood or forest shall be deemed to be in such of
those divisions as may be specified in the direction.

S.8 rep. in pt. by SLR 1973, residue spent

Destruction of rabbits, hares or deer.

FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 9

9.(1) Where any trees are

(a)growing in any plantation to which this section applies; and

(b)being damaged by rabbits, hares or deer;

(i)in that plantation; or

(ii)on any land in his occupation adjoining that plantation.

(2) In any prosecution for killing, taking or destroying rabbits,
hares or deer at a time not permitted by law it shall be a good
defence for the person charged to prove that

(a)he is the occupier of a plantation to which this section
applies; and

(b)the trees growing in that plantation are being damaged by
rabbits, hares or deer; and

(c)the rabbits, hares or deer were killed, taken or destroyed in
that plantation or on any land in his occupation adjoining that
plantation.

(3) In this section the expression "plantation" means

(a)any woodland, of [one hectare] or more in area, used for the
production of timber for commercial purposes; and

(b)any nursery land used for rearing young forest trees.

(4) Nothing in this section shall relieve any person from the
necessity of complying with the provisions of any enactment for the
time being in force relating to game certificates or to gun
licences.

FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 10
Prevention of damage caused by rabbits and vermin.

10.(1) Where the Ministry is satisfied that trees growing on any
land (in this section referred to as "the planted land") are being,
or are likely to be, damaged by rabbits or vermin present on any
land (in this section referred to as "the infested land") in the
vicinity of the planted land, the Ministry may serve on the
occupier of the infested land, or if that land is unoccupied on
the owner thereof, a notice in writing

(a)stating that trees growing on the planted land are being, or are
likely to be, damaged by rabbits or vermin present on the infested
land; and

(b)requesting that, within three months of the service of the
notice, effective steps be taken to prevent the damage.

(2) If the occupier, or as the case may be the owner of the
infested land does not comply with the notice served in accordance
with sub-section (1) of this section the Ministry may authorise in
writing a person to enter on the infested land and kill, take or
destroy the rabbits or vermin thereon during any specified period
not exceeding twelve months.

(3) In any prosecution for killing any rabbits at any time not
permitted by law it shall be a good defence for the person charged
to prove that he was acting pursuant to

(a)a notice served in accordance with sub-section (1) of this
section; or

(b)an authorisation given in accordance with sub-section (2) of this
section.

(4) In this section the expression "vermin" includes any wild
animals (other than rabbits, hares or deer) likely to damage trees.

FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 11
Burning of vegetation.

11.(1) A person shall not burn any vegetation growing within [one
and a half kilometres] of a wood or forest which he does not own
unless he has, within one month and at least fourteen days before
commencing to burn that vegetation, served on the owner of the wood
or forest notice in writing of his intention to burn that
vegetation.

(2) A person who burns any vegetation in contravention of
sub-section (1) of this section shall be guilty of an offence under
this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a
fine not exceeding five pounds.

(3) Where, in accordance with sub-section (1) of this section, a
notice has been served on the owner of a wood or forest, that
owner may within ten days after receiving the notice serve on the
person serving the notice a counter notice objecting to the proposed
burning on the ground that it is liable to cause damage to the
wood or forest.

(4) A person who burns any vegetation

(a)in contravention of sub-section (1) of this section; or

(b)after receiving a counter notice served in accordance with
sub-section (3) of this section;

Removal or destruction of vegetation on land adjoining woods.

FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 12

12.(1) Where the Ministry is satisfied that, by reason of the
presence of any vegetation on uncultivated land adjoining a wood or
forest, the wood or forest is liable to be damaged by fire
originating on the land the Ministry may serve on the occupier, or
if the land is unoccupied on the owner, a notice in writing

(a)stating that the vegetation constitutes a potential danger to the
wood or forest;

(b)requesting that any vegetation growing on the part of the land
within a distance of [fifteen metres] from the boundary of the wood
or forest be removed or destroyed within thirty days after the
service of the notice.

(2) If the occupier, or as the case may be the owner, does not
comply with a notice served in accordance with sub-section (1) of
this section the Ministry may authorise in writing a person to
enter on the land within four months from the service of the
notice, and remove or destroy any vegetation growing on the part of
the land within a distance of [fifteen metres] from the boundary of
the wood or forest.

(3) Where, pursuant to

(a)a notice served in accordance with sub-section (1) of this
section; or

(b)the power conferred by sub-section (2) of this section;

Identification of trees.

FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 13

13. Any person authorised by the Ministry may take such steps,
whether by marking or otherwise, as the Ministry may consider
necessary for identifying trees for the purposes of any of the
functions of the Ministry under this Act.

FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 14
Forest parks.

14.(1) The Ministry may with the consent of the Ministry of Finance
by regulation declare that any land owned by the Ministry shall be
treated as a Northern Ireland forest park (in this section referred
to as "a forest park") [or as a Northern Ireland forest recreation
area (in this section referred to as "a forest recreation area")],
and thereupon the public shall have access to that land subject to
and in accordance with such byelaws as may be made under this
section.

[(1A) Sub-section (1) shall apply to land held by the Department
under a lease in like manner as it applies to land owned by the
Department but nothing in this section shall authorise anything which
is contrary to the provisions of the lease.

(1B) For the purpose of improving the amenity of land acquired by
the Department under this Act or under any other enactment or
otherwise, the Department may provide on that land such facilities
as it considers desirable for such improvement and, without prejudice
to the generality of this power, such facilities may include

(a)parking places, caravan parks, camping sites, shelters and
lavatories;

(b)meals and refreshment;

(c)viewing points for the public, open spaces, footpaths and
bridlepaths;

(d)the planting of trees to enhance the landscape;

(e)the provision of nature trails, arboreta, wildlife enclosures,
interpretative centres, forest conservation areas, scenic drives;

(1C) The Department may, with the approval of the Department of
Finance, impose such charges on persons entering all or any of the
forest parks or forest recreation areas or making use of any
facility provided as it considers reasonable.]

(2) The Ministry may make byelaws

(a)prescribing the times during which the public shall have access
to forest parks [or forest recreation areas];

(b)making such provision as may appear to the Ministry to be
necessary for the preservation of trees or timber in forest parks
[or forest recreation areas];

(c)prohibiting or regulating any act or thing tending to injury or
disfigurement of forest parks [or forest recreation areas] or the
amenities thereof;

(d)without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provisions of
this sub-section, providing for the reasonable use of forest parks
[or forest recreation areas] by the public for the purposes of
exercise and recreation.

(3) The Ministry may authorise persons appointed or employed by the
Ministry to exercise such powers and perform such duties as the
Ministry may consider necessary for the enforcement of byelaws made
under this section, and in particular any person so authorised may
after due warning remove or exclude from any forest park [or forest
recreation area] a person who commits, or whom he reasonably
suspects of committing, an offence against any byelaw made under
this section or against the section which, by virtue of sub-section
(1) of section fifty-seven of the Summary Jurisdiction and Criminal
Justice Act (Northern Ireland), 1935, was substituted for section
four of the Vagrancy Act, 1824.

(4) A person who commits an offence against any byelaw made under
this section, or who obstructs any person authorised in accordance
with sub-section (3) of this section, shall be guilty of an offence
under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof
to a fine not exceeding [#100] and, for a continuing offence, to a
further fine not exceeding [#2] in respect of each day during which
the offence continues.[

FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 15
Financial provisions.

15.(1) All expenditure incurred by the Ministry in carrying this Act
into effect and all payments made by the Ministry under or in
pursuance of any of the provisions of this Act shall, except to
the extent to which the Ministry of Finance may under sub-section
(2) of this section direct such expenses to be defrayed from the
Consolidated Fund, be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

(2) Expenditure, not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of [one
million five hundred thousand pounds], incurred or to be incurred by
the Ministry in purchasing, taking on lease, or otherwise acquiring
any land, buildings or works under paragraphs (a) or (d) of
sub-section (1) of section two of this Act or in exchanging any
land under paragraph (b) of that sub-section or in purchasing or
otherwise acquiring standing timber under paragraph (b) of sub-section
(1) of section three of this Act shall, if the Ministry of Finance
so direct, be defrayed by means of sums charged on and issued out
of the Consolidated Fund.

(3) The Ministry of Finance may borrow money for the purpose of
providing issues out of the Consolidated Fund under sub-section (2)
of this section.

(4) Moneys borrowed under sub-section (3) of this section shall be
repaid within twenty-five years from the date of borrowing, and
provision for such repayment may be made out of moneys provided by
Parliament.

(5) All sums payable to the Ministry under or by virtue of any of
the provisions of this Act shall be paid into the Exchequer.]

FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 16
Power of entry on land.

16. For the purposes of enabling the Ministry to exercise or
perform any functions under or by virtue of this Act, any person
authorised by the Ministry in that behalf may, on production (if so
required) of his authority, enter on and inspect any land.

FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 17
Miscellaneous offences.

17.(1) Any person who

(a)wilfully obstructs any officer or servant of the Ministry or any
person authorised by the Ministry in writing in the exercise or
performance of any functions of the Ministry under this Act, or any
person engaged on work in pursuance thereof; or

(b)pulls down, removes, or injures any work done in pursuance of
this Act; or

(c)removes, injures or defaces any pegs, poles or marks placed or
made by any authorised person for the purpose of, or in connection
with, any work as aforesaid;

(2) Any person guilty of an offence under this section shall be
liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding [#250],
or at the discretion of the court to imprisonment for any term not
exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment, and for
a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding [#25] in
respect of each day during which the offence continues.

FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 18
Notices.

18.(1) Any notice required or authorised by or under this Act to
be served on any person shall be duly served if it is delivered
to him, or left at his proper address, or sent to him by post in
a registered letter addressed to him at that address.

(2) Any notice so required or authorised to be served on an
incorporated company or body shall be duly served if served on the
secretary or clerk of the company or body.

(3) For the purposes of this section and of section twenty-six of
the Interpretation Act, 1889, the proper address of any person on
whom any such notice as aforesaid is to be served shall

(a)where the secretary or clerk of any incorporated company or body
is concerned, be the address of the registered or principal office
of the company or body;

(b)where the person concerned has furnished an address for service,
be the address so furnished;

(c)in any other case, be the last known address of the person
concerned.

(4) If it is not practicable to serve a notice as aforesaid on
the owner or occupier of any land, that notice shall be duly
served if it is served in accordance with the provisions of this
section, on the authorised agent of that owner or occupier.

(5) If it is not practicable to ascertain the name or address of
an owner or occupier of land on whom any such notice as aforesaid
is to be served, or of the authorised agent of that owner or
occupier, the notice may be served by addressing it to the owner
or occupier by the description of "owner" or "occupier" of the land
(describing it) to which it relates, and by delivering it to some
responsible person on the land, or if there is no such person on
the land to whom it may be delivered, by affixing it or a copy
of it to some conspicuous object on the land.

FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 19
Regulations.

19.(1) Any regulations made by the Ministry under this Act, other
than regulations made under sub-section (3) or sub-section (4) of
section four of this Act, shall, as soon as may be after they are
made, be laid before each House of Parliament and if either House
of Parliament, within the statutory period next after any such
regulations have been laid before it, resolves that the regulations
shall be annulled, the regulations shall, after the date of the
resolution, be void, but without prejudice to the validity of
anything done thereunder or to the making of new regulations.

(2) Any regulations made under sub-section (3) or sub-section (4) of
section four of this Act shall not come into operation unless and
until the draft thereof has been laid before each House of
Parliament and confirmed by a resolution of each such House.

FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 20
Interpretation.

20.(1) In this Act unless the contrary intention appears the
following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them, that
is to say:

"afforestation" includes reafforestation;

"felling" includes uprooting, and wilfully destroying by any means;

"functions" includes powers and duties;

"land" includes land covered by water and any estate or interest in
land and any easement or right in, to or over land or water;

"owner" in relation to trees means, unless the contrary is proved,
the owner of the land on which the trees are growing and, where
trees have been felled means, unless the contrary is proved, the
person who was the owner immediately before the felling;

"owner" in relation to land (except in section two of this Act)
has the same meaning as in the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878;

"prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made by the Ministry;

"timber" includes all forest products;

"woodland industry" means any industry which uses forest products as
a major part of its raw materials.

Subs.(2)(3) rep. by 1954 c.33 (NI) s.48(1) sch.

Short title.

FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 22

22.(1) This Act may be cited as the Forestry Act (Northern
Ireland), 1953.

Subs.(2) rep. by SLR 1973

Schedule rep. by SLR 1973