Regulations Governing Disposition Of Forest Products Of State-owned Forests Article 15

The special approval provided by reasons of subparagraphs 1, 2, 3, 8 or 11 of the preceding paragraph may be granted free of charge, provided that the cutting and harvesting to be conducted under subparagraph 1 of the foregoing artical is to serve educational or exhibition purposes only.The special approval according to subparagraphs 12 of the first paragraph of the foregoing article, the indigenous persons, tribes or registered aboriginal groups shall gather driftwood free of charge and only for the purpose of traditional culture/rituals or personal use.The managing administration may by special approve sell to the harvester the blocking bamboos/wood cut by such harvester in accordance with subparagraph 6 of the first paragraph. Notwithstanding, where the price for such forest products as determined by the managing administration is a negative amount or less than one tenth of total market price, the harvester shall be required to pay the reimbursement of an amount equal to one tenth of the market price with respect to natural bamboos/trees and equal to the reforestation cost with respect to reforested bamboos/trees. In such case, none of such forest products may be moved for utilization.The blocking bamboos/trees within the aboriginal reservation land shall be provided free of charge to the aborigines as materials for aborigines' private use. The harvester shall transport the remainder, if any, to the designated place and hand over to the managing administration for handling. The receiving agency shall assess and reimburse the gathering-up and transportation expenses.Above rule apply to driftwood provided to indigenous people for traditional cultural/rituals or personal use that announced according to the fifth paragraph of the preceding article.No materials provided free of charge as materials for aborigines' private use or materials used for public facilities in mountainous region or driftwood used for aborigines' traditional cultural / rituals may be assigned or used for other purposes. A report on the use of such materials,incluuding driftwood, shall be submitted to the local administration office of the hsiang (city, district) for inspection.