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

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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.

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FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 11