Declaration by the Minister on Local Forest No. P20 Malanda (Cap. 199)
Made 1952 · Text as of 2026-10-01
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- English
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- Regulation
- Organisation
- Zambezi Watercourse Commission (ZAMCOM)
- Country
- Zambia
- Subjects
- Forestry
- Keywords
- forest management/forest conservation, forestry protection measures, protected area, timber extraction/logging, grazing, agro-forestry, fire management, pastoralism, hazards
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is shown bordered green upon Plan No. FR52, deposited in the office of the Surveyor-General and dated 3rd December, 1951. LOCAL FOREST NO. P20: MALANDA Government Notice 249 of 1952 Statutory Instruments 140 of 1970 66 of 1975 The area described in the Schedule is hereby declared to be a Local Forest, and the following acts are hereby prohibited within the said area except under licence: (a) felling, cutting, taking, working, burning, injuring or removal of any forest produce; (b) squatting, residing, building any hut or livestock enclosure, constructing or reopening any saw-pit or road; (c) firing any grass or undergrowth, or lighting or assisting in lighting any fire, or allowing any fire lighted by the offender or his employees to enter the said area; (d) grazing, livestock or allowing livestock to trespass; (e) clearing, cultivating or breaking up land for cultivation or any other purposes; (f) entering or being in or upon (i) any such area while in possession of any implement for cutting, taking, working or removal of forest produce unless he is a bona fide traveller upon a road or path in such area; or (ii) any such area, or portion thereof, in any manner or for any purpose contrary to any statutory order made by the Chief Forest Officer: Provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing prohibitions, licences to cut free for the purpose of making canoes not more than ten trees per annum and to cut free sufficient wood to make not more than thirty paddles per annum will be granted to inhabitants of Chief Sekute's country. SCHEDULE Starting at Beacon 1 on the northern edge of the D327 Road Reserve (Livingstone-Mambova Road) where the road crosses the Bovu Dambo (approximately 18.34 kilometres east of Mambova Township), the boundary runs north-eastwards along the northern edge of the Bovu Dambo for a distance of approximately 6,672.1 metres, through Beacons 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9 to Beacon 10; thence in a northerly direction along the Kolwa Dambo for a distance of approximately 8,747.8 metres through Beacons 11 to 17 to Beacon 1A at the head of the Kolwa Dambo; thence it follows a cut line on a true bearing of approximately 307 degrees for a distance of approximately 10,728.96 metres through Beacons 18 to 25 to Beacon 26; thence in a south-westerly direction for a distance of approximately 18,044.2 metres through Beacons 26 to 46 to Beacon 47; thence eastwards on a true bearing of approximately 89 degrees in a straight line for a distance of approximately 10,607.04 metres to Beacon 48 (the boundary crosses the new Sesheke-Livingstone road approximately 3,910.58 metres east of Beacon 47); thence in a southerly direction for a distance of approximately 10,241.3 metres along a track in the Imusho Dambo through Beacons 49 to 59 to Beacon 60 at the Mambova-Livingstone Main Road; thence eastwards along the northern boundary of this road reserve for a distance of approximately 6,675.12 metres through Beacons 61 to 66 to Beacon 1, the point of starting. Included within the above defined boundaries but excluded from the Local Forest is part of the Road Reserve of the Livingstone-Sesheke Road. The above described area, in extent 19,623.1 hectares approximately, is shown bordered green on Plan No. FR51/1 deposited in the office of the Surveyor-General, signed by him and dated 14th October, 1968. LOCAL FOREST NO. P30: KATOMBORA EXTENSION Government Notice 118 of 1953 Statutory Instruments 283 of 1970