TIMBER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND LEGALITY LICENSING REGULATIONS, 2017 (L.I. 2254)

(1) The purpose of these Regulations is to (a) regulate the identification of land suitable for the grant of timber rights, (b) regulate the terms and conditions for small and large scale timber rights, . (c) regulate other sources of timber, and (d) provide for a legality licensing scheme.

(1) The Forestry Commission shall identify lands suitable for grant of large scale timber utilisation contracts. (2) Subject to section 4 of the Act, the Chief Executive of the Commission shall, for the purpose of identifying lands under subregulation (1), (a) cause to be prepared inventories of forests and timber on public lands, existing forest reserves, stool lands and any other lands as the Chief Executive may determine; and (b) issue directives to the District Forest Officers as the Chief Executive may determine to submit a general report on timber on public lands, forest reserves, stool lands and any other land as the Chief Executive may direct, in their respective districts at the times that the Chief Executive may direct. (3) The inventories shall be prepared by the District Forest Officers of the Commission in consultation with the District Chief Executives of the areas of the lands concerned. (4) Where upon the completion of an exercise under subregulations (2) and (3), the Chief Executive is satisfied that the inventories justify the grant of timber rights in respect of a land, the Chief Executive shall (a) direct the District Forest Officer of the district concerned to conduct a detailed field inspection of the land; and (b) inform the relevant District Chief Executive of the directives given to the District Forest Officer to conduct the inspection. (5) The directives given to a District Forest Officer under subregulation (4) does not apply to private land or stool land unless the owners of the land have been informed of the inspection. (6) Where the Chief Executive finds that by reason of insufficient timber for long term viable timber operations, an area does not qualify for full cycle harvest rotation, the Chief Executive may recommend the allocation of timber resources through small scale timber rights under regulations 18 to 21 or through replacement allocations in accordance with regulation 25.