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ECONOMIC PLANTS PROTECTION DECREE,
1979 (AFRCD 47)
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section
1. Destruction of Specified Plants
Prohibited.
2. Payment of Compensation.
3. Commissioner to Prescribe
Values and Rates of Compensation.
4. Grant of Felling Rights
Prohibited.
5. Penalties.
6. Amendment of Schedule.
7. Interpretation.
SCHEDULE
Schedule
BE IT ENACTED by the Armed Forces
Revolutionary Council as follows:—
Section 1—Destruction of Specified
Plants Prohibited.
Any person who,
(a) without the written authority
of the Commissioner, or
(b) for purposes other than for
horticultural husbandry,
intentionally destroys or causes
the destruction of any specified
plant shall be guilty of an
offence.
Section 2—Payment of Compensation.
(1) Where a court convicts any
person of any offence under
section 1, the court shall order
him to pay compensation in respect
of every specified plant
destroyed, in addition to any
punishment imposed thereunder.
(2) The Commissioner may give his
written authority under section 1
(a) on condition that compensation
shall be paid in respect of each
specified plant destroyed thereby.
(3) The compensation shall be paid
in the case of a court order,
within seven days of such order,
and in the case of a written
authority given by the
Commissioner, within such period
as the Commissioner may specify.
(4) Any person who fails without
reasonable excuse (proof of which
shall be upon him) to comply with
the provisions of this section
shall be guilty of an offence.
Section 3—Commissioner to
Prescribe Values and Rates of
Compensation.
(1) The Commissioner, after
consulting the Commissioner
responsible for Lands and Natural
Resources, may by executive
instrument prescribe fixed values
for every specified plant
according to the age of each such
plant.
(2) The values prescribed by the
Commissioner under sub-section (1)
shall be the rates at which
compensation under section 2 shall
be paid.
Section 4—Grant of Felling Rights
Prohibited.
(1) No felling rights in respect
of timber trees shall be granted
where such timber trees stand in
farms where specified plants are
cultivated.
(2) Where immediately before the
publication of this Decree in the
Gazette there existed any felling
rights in respect of timber trees
standing in farms where specified
plants are cultivated, such rights
shall be deemed to be void and
shall forthwith cease to have any
effect.
(3) Any person who grants or
purports to grant or acts or
purports to act in pursuance of
any felling rights in
contravention of the provision of
this section shall be guilty of an
offence.
Section 5—Penalties.
Any person who commits an offence
under this Decree shall on summary
conviction be liable for every
offence to a fine not exceeding
¢500.00 or to imprisonment not
exceeding three months, or to
both.
Section 6—Amendment of Schedule.
The Commissioner may by executive
instrument amend the Schedule to
this Decree.
Section 7—Interpretation.
In this Decree, unless the context
otherwise requires;
"Commissioner" means the
Commissioner responsible for
matters relating to cocoa;
"specified plant" means any plant
specified in this Schedule to this
Decree.
SCHEDULE
COCOA
Made this 21st day of September,
1979.
FLT. LT. JERRY JOHN RAWLINGS
Chairman of the Armed Forces
Revolutionary Council
Date of Gazette Notification: 22nd
September, 1979.
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