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The Forests Protection Act provides for the duties and powers of Forest Officers and identifies a number of offences related to Forest reserves.
Amendments
The offences and penalties in this act replace the ones previously included in the Forests Act (1927, CAP 157).
The Forest Protection Act, 1974 (N.R.D.C. 243) has been amended by the Forest Protection (Amendment) Act in 2002 (Act 624) which replaced the Forest offences and the offences related to marks.