Prescribed Activities
The Natural Resources and Environment (Prescribed Activities) Order, 1994
First Schedule
Prescribed Activities
(Articles 2, 3 and 6)
1. Agriculture Development:
(i) Development of agricultural estates or plantations of an area exceeding 500 hectares -
(a) from land under secondary or primary forests, or
(b) which would involve the resettlement of more than 100 families; or
(c) which would involve modification in the use of the land.
(ii) Conversion of mangrove swamps into agricultural estate having area exceeding 50 hectares.
2. Logging:
(i) Extraction or felling of timber from any area exceeding 500 hectares which have previously been logged or in respect of which coupes have previously been declared to have been closed by the Director of Forests under the previsions of the Forest Ordinance (Cap. 126 - 1958 Ed.)
(ii) Extraction or felling of any timber within any area declared to be a water catchments area under section 8 of the Water Ordinance, 1994 (Cap. 13).
3. Development of Commercial, Industrial and Housing Estates:
(i) Development of commercial or housing estates of an area exceeding 10 hectares.
(ii) Development of industrial estates with factories to accommodate medium or heavy industries.
(iii) Conversion of mangrove swamps into industrial, commercial or housing estate exceeding 10 hectares in area.
(iv) Reclamation of land, whether by the sea or along river banks, for housing, commercial or industrial estates.
