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Any person who

(a) knowingly counterfeits or fraudulently uses upon timber or standing tree a mark or indicates that the timber or tree is the property of any person; or

(b) without the written consent of a Forest Officer alters, defaces or obliterates a mark placed on any timber or tree; or

(c) alters, moves, destroys or defaces any boundary mark of any Forest Reserve, commits an offence and is on summary conviction liable to a fine not exceeding 500 penalty units or to imprisonment not exceeding 2 years or to both, except that for a second or subsequent offence under this section the offender shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of not less than 250 penalty units or to imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or to both. [As substituted by the Forest Protection (Amendment) Act, 2002 (Act 624), s.1(b)].