Section 8: Removal of trees and brushwood

8. Removal of trees and brushwood (1) The authorised officer may authorise the owner or occupier of— (a) a mountain reserve to cut or remove— (i) dead or dying trees; or (ii) live trees of small size in coppice, for the purpose of improving the growing stock in the mountain reserve; (b) a river reserve to cut or remove trees for— (i) building a bridge; (ii) making a road or establishing a path; (iii) obtaining convenient access to a stream; or (iv) replanting the land. F22 – 5 [Issue 1] Forests and Reserves Act (2) The authorised officer may impose such conditions on the grant of an authorisation under subsection (1) as he thinks fit— (a) to enable forest officers to exercise proper control over the operations; (b) as to the security to be furnished by the owner or occupier for the payment of expenses incidental to any control exercised under paragraph (a); or (c) concerning the replanting of the land. (3) The owner of a mountain or river reserve may destroy a cuscuta creeper growing on the reserve and may, in the presence and subject to the directions of the authorised officer, lop off the branches of trees where such a course of action is necessary to destroy the cuscuta creeper.