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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.

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