54. Special provisions in favour of natives

Subject to any general provision in any rules made under section 52

prohibiting or regulating the cutting and removal of any specified form of forest produce, or prohibiting or regulating the cutting and removal of all or any forest produce in any specified locality, nothing in any rules made under section 52 shall be deemed to prohibit the cutting and removal from State land or, with the permission of the owner, from alienated land by —

Forest

(a)

any native of Brunei Darussalam; or

(b)

any such other person or class of persons as the Minister may by declaration designate, of any timber, atap or other forest produce which may be necessary —

(i)

for the construction or repair of a dwelling house for the permanent abode of himself and his family;

(ii)

for the construction or repair of temporary huts on any land lawfully occupied by him;

(iii)

for the construction or repair of his boats, landing places and fishing stakes;

(iv)

for the fencing of his land;

(v)

for firewood for his own domestic consumption; or

(vi)

for the construction, repair or upkeep of any work for the common benefit of the native and other inhabitants of the locality in which he lives to whom the provisions of this section apply.

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Read on from s 55