GOVERNMENT OF TERENGGANU

TAMAN NEGARA NATIONAL PARK ENACTMENT

NO. 6 OF 1939

An Enactment to provide for the dedication of certain lands in Terengganu as part

of the Taman Negara National Park

WHEREAS the Sultans of Terengganu, Terengganu and Pahang have declared their desire jointly
to commemorate the silver jubilee of the accession to the Throne of His Majesty King George V
by the dedication of certain lands situate in each of the said States which shall constitute together
a National Park in perpetuity for the propagation, protection and preservation of the indigenous
fauna and flora of Malaya and which shall be known as Taman Negara National Park:

AND WHEREAS it is expedient to make provision for the dedication and administration
accordingly of so much of the land as is situated in the State of Terengganu. It is hereby enacted
by His Highness the Sultan in Council as follows:-

1. This Enactment may by cited as the Taman Negara (Terengganu) Enactment.

2. In this Enactment -

"animal" means any vertebrate animal and the eggs and young of any vertebrate
animal;

"National Park" means the State Park together with the other areas in Terengganu and
Pahang as may be constituted by Enactments in those States together to constitute the
Taman Negara;

"Officer in Charge of the Park" means the officer appointed by the Trustees in
accordance with the provisions of sub-section (i) of Section 6 of this Enactment to be
in charge of the State Park;

"Park Official" includes all officers and servants employed by the Trustees in
exercise of powers conferred upon them under sub-section (i) of Section 6 and
appointed by such Trustees to be Park Officials;

"State Park" means those lands, part of the Taman Negara, which are situate in the
State of Terengganu and which are described in the First Schedule;

"trap" means any contrivance or device or thing by means of which any animal can
be captured;

"Trustees" means the persons referred to in sub-section (ii) of Section 3 in whom the
State Park is from time to time jointly vested;

"weapons" means any firearm or ammunition therefor or any other instrument

capable of propelling a projectile or capable of being used in such a manner that any
animal can be killed or injured thereby.
3. (i) The State Park is hereby dedicated set aside and reserved in perpetuity in
trust for the purposes of the propogation, protection and preservation of
the indigenous fauna and flora of Malaya and of the preservation of
objects and places of aesthetic, historical or scientific interest and shall
together with any contigous lands dedicated, set aside or reserved for
similar purposes within the States of Terengganu and Pahang constitute
the Taman Negara.

(ii) The State Park shall vest from time to time jointly in such persons as
shall be fulfilling the duties and exercising the powers of the Sultan of
Terengganu and of the Yang di Pertuan Agong respectively who shall
hold and administer the said lands as Trustees for the purposes referred
to in sub-section (i).

(iii) No modification of the area or boundaries of or of the title to the State

Park shall be made save by an Enactment enacted by the State
Legislature or as in Section 4 provided and no dealings in or dispositions
of the lands constituting the State Park shall take place or be recognised,
registered or enforceable save as is in Section 5 provided.

(iv) For the purposes only of the provisions of Sections 145, 146, 147 and
149 of the Land Enactment, the State Park shall be deemed to be land
reserved for public purposes:

Provided however that any warrant issued under Section 147 of

the Land Enactment in respect of any land within the State Park
shall require any police officer to whom it is addressed to take
possession of such land on behalf of the Trustees.

4. (i) The Legislature Assembly of State on the application of the Trustees

may by Resolution amend the First Schedule in respect of the boundaries
of the State Park as therein set out and described provided that such
amendment is in the opinion of the Trustees necessary or desirable in
order to secure greater ease of description or demarcation of the said
boundaries or greater ease in the administration of the State Park and
provided that such amendment does not result in any substantial decrease
in the total area of the State Park.

(ii) Any amendment made under sub-section (i) shall take effect (unless the
Resolution otherwise declares) on the date of the Resolution and shall be
published in the Gazette .

5. (i) The Trustees may lease or permit the leasing, use or occupation of any
land within the State Park subject to such conditions and restrictions as
they think fit to impose and for the following purposes only:

(a) the construction and maintenance of roads;

(b) the construction and maintenance of railways and railway
buildings;
(c) the construction and maintenance of aerodromes;
(d) the construction and maintenance of dams and reservoirs;
 (e) the construction and maintenance of hotels, rest houses, dwelling
houses, buildings and works of public utility where the Trustees
consider these to be necessary and in the interests of the
development of the State Park in accordance with the purposes
referred to in sub-section (i) of Section 3;
(f) mining in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.

(ii) Any land leased by the Trustees or in respect of which any lease use or
occupation has been permitted by the Trustees under sub-section (i) shall
continue to form part of the State Park and to be subject to the provisions
of this Enactment and of any Rules made thereunder save in so far as
may be set out in any condition or restriction imposed by the Trustees
under the said sub-section.

(iii) Save by virtue of any right conferred by or acquired under or in respect

of any lease or permission under sub-section (i) or as otherwise in this
Enactment provided no person other than a Park Official may reside or
enter, use or occupy any land within and forming part of the State Park
without the permission of the Trustees so to do.

6. (i) The Trustees shall have full powers to administer the State Park and may
for that purpose employ and appoint either by name or office an officer
to be known as the Officer in Charge of the Park and such other officers
and servants as they may consider necessary.

(ii) The appointment as a Park Official of any person employed by the

Trustees shall be notified in the Gazette.

(iii) Every officer or servant employed by the Trustees shall for the purposes
of the Penal Code be deemed to be a public servant and shall within the
State Park have all the powers of a police constable as defined in the
Criminal Procedure Code or any other written law in force.

7. (i) The State Park shall not for the purpose of the Mining Enactment or of
the Land Enactment or of any other Enactment be deemed to be State
land nor shall any mining or prospecting operations be normally carried
on within the State Park.

(ii) Notwithstanding anything contained in subsection (i), if at any time the

Trustees have reason to believe that in a particular portion of the State
Park a mineral deposit exists of such richness that it would be contrary to
the interests of the State that it should not be mined the Trustees may
take such steps as may be necessary to consent to the issue under the
Mining Enactment of licenses to prospect such portion of the State Park
and if necessary for the issue thereafter of mining certificates or of
mining leases in respect of that portion of the State Park or of any part of
such portion of the State Park.

(iii) For the purposes of sub-section (ii) and in respect of any portion of the
State Park which is to be prospected the Trustees shall be deemed to be
the proprietors and lawful occupiers of alienated land and in respect of
 any land in respect of which any mining certificate or mining lease is to
be issued it shall be lawful for the Trustees by writing under their hands
to surrender such land to the State and any land so surrendered shall then
be deemed to be State land:

Provided that upon the termination of any rights granted over

any land within the State Park by any mining document of title
(or by any renewal thereof) by reason of forfeiture, effluxion of
time or otherwise such land shall automatically re-vest in the
Trustees to be held by them under this Enactment and as part of
the State Park.

(iv) When any mining document of title is issued in respect of any land
within the State Park the Trustees shall grant in respect of any other
portion of the State Park such rights of passage, licenses or other
facilities as may be necessary for the practical exercise of the rights
granted by such mining document of title.

(v) Notwithstanding anything in any other Enactment contained no mining

certificate or mining lease shall be issued in respect of any land
surrendered under sub-section (iii) unless such mining certificate or
mining lease includes such reasonable conditions as the Trustees may
require to be inc luded therein in order to allow them such rights of entry
into and control of such lands may be consistent with such land being
used for mining purposes and as may be necessary in order that the
Trustees may carry out the general objects of this Enactment in respect of
such land and of the State Park generally.

8. (i) Subject to the provisions of this Enactment and to any Rules made
thereunder, no person other than a park official acting in the performance
of his duty shall -

(a) convey into the State Park or within the confines of the State
Park be in possession of any weapon, explosive, trap, net,
birdlime, poison or other thing intended or calculated to cause
injury to any animal within the State Park;
(b) convey into the park or within the confines of the park be in
possession of any implement or tool intended or calculated for
the doing of any act or thing in contravention of the provisions of
this Enactment or of any Rule made thereunder;
(c) introduce any animal into the State Park or permit any domestic
animal to stray into the State Park;
(d) within the State Park disturb or take the nest of any animal or
kill, injure, capture or molest any animal:
Provided that any dangerous animal may be killed in defence of
human life or to prevent the infliction of personal injury;
(e) remove from the State Park any live animal or any part of any
dead animal other than an animal lawfully introduced into the
State Park;
(f) within the State Park cut, destroy or damage any tree or plant or
clear, dig or cultivate any land;
 (g) remove from the State Park any tree or plant or any part of any
tree or plant.

9. (i) No person shall within the State Park wilfully or negligently destroy,
damage or deface any object of zoological, botanical, geological,
ethnological or other scientific or aesthetic interest or value.

(ii) No person shall destroy, damage or remove any notice, boundary mark
or other thing whatsoever the property of the Trustees

(iii) No person shall use or occupy any building, vehicle, boat or other thing
the property of the Trustees except in accordance with any permission
granted by a park official competent to grant such permissions or
otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Enactment.

10. (i) The Trustees may make Rules for the better carrying into effect of the
purposes of this Enactment.

(ii) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing

power such Rules may -

(a) delegate to any park official any of the powers and duties of the
Trustees (including the power of further delegation);
(b) prescribing the conditions under which the State Park may be
used;
(c) prohibit the doing of any particular act within the State Park;
(d) prescribe the fees payable in respect of any particular use of the
State Park or of anything done under this Enactment;
(e) prescribe in respect of any contravention of any Rule, penalties
not exceeding imprisonment for six months or a fine of five
hundred dollars or in the case of a continuing offence a fine of
fifty dollars for every day on which the offence has been
committed;
(f) provide for the seizure and for the forfeiture after conviction of
any animal or other thing by means of which or in respect of
which any offence has been committed;

(ii) Such Rules shall not take effect and come into force until they have been
confirmed or amended by Resolution of the Legislative Assembly of
State and have thereafter been published in the Gazette.

11. Any person contravening, offending against or not complying with any provision
of this Enactment or any Rule in respect of which no specific penalty has been
prescribed shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for
six months.

12. Any charge for an offence against this Enactment or against any Rule made
thereunder may be tried by a Court of a Magistrate of the First Class, provided
that the Trustees or any park official to whom they may delegate such power may
in their or his discretion compound any such offence for any sum not exceeding
the sum of twenty five dollars.
13. (i) Any member of the police force or any park official generally or
specially authorized by the Trustees so to do may within the State Park
or within two miles from the nearest point on any boundary thereof arrest
any person found committing any offense against this Enactment or
against any Rule made thereunder or whom he may reasonably suspect to
have committed such an offence and shall as soon after such arrest as is
practicable take or send such person before a Magistrate or to a police
station there to be dealt with according to law:

Provided that at the request of any person so arrested such person may in
the first instance be taken before any park official to whom under section
12 power to compound offences has been delegated and if any offence
committed is thereupon compounded and the composition is paid or
secured to the satisfaction of the said park official the person so arrested
shall be released from such arrest.

(ii) So long as provisions to the like effect exist in the law of the State of
Kelantan or of the State of Pahang respectively if any person is known or
reasonably suspected to have done in any part of the Taman Negara
National Park lying within the State of Pahang or within the State of
Terengganu respectively any act which if it had been done in the State of
Terengganu would have constituted an offence against this Enactment or
against any Rule made thereunder and such person is found within or
immediately on his arrest has been brought into the State of Terengganu
such person may be dealt with in all respects as if such act had in fact
been done within the State of Terengganu.

(iii) So long as the provisions to the like effect exist in the law of the State of
Kelantan or of the State of Pahang respectively any person who has done
within the State of Terengganu any act which constitutes any offence
against this Enactment or against any Rule made thereunder and who is
found within or immediately on his arrest has been taken into the State of
Pahang or the State of Terengganu respectively may within that State be
dealt with in all respects as if such person had in fact done such act
within such State.

(iv) Unless His Highness the Sultan in Council shall by resolution otherwise
decide it shall be presumed that provisions to the like effect with sub-
sections (ii) and (iii) exist in the law of the State of Pahang and of the
State of Terengganu, and the absence of any such resolution shall be
conclusive evidence that such provisions exist as aforesaid.

14. Any member of the police force or any park official generally or specially
authorized by the Trustees so to do may within the State Park or within two miles
from any point on the boundary thereof if he suspects that any point on the
boundary thereof if he suspects that any offence has been committed against this
Enactment or against any Rule made thereunder inspect and search any baggage,
equipment, package, container, tent, vehicle, boat, craft or place and seize any
thing therein which he requires as evidence that any such offence has been
committed.
 SCHEDULE

Description of boundaries of that part of Taman Negara National Park

which lies in Terengganu

All that area of land amounting to 198,300 acres more or less in the Daerah of Lebir in the
District of Ulu Terengganu bounded as follows:

Commencing from Gunung Rabong (5040) and proceeding in a direct line, bearing
approximately 1090 15', to a point about one mile due south of Kampong Pakoh, thence in a
direct line, bearing approximately 770 15', to Kuala Manis on the true right bank of the River Ibu
Lebir, above Kuala Ampul: thence by the true right bank of the River Manis for one mile from
Kuala Manis, thence north-easterly to Kuala Alor, a tributary of the River Pertang, thence by the
true right bank of the River Alor following the ancient Pangan track to near the source of the
River Alor and to the Terengganu-Trengganu boundary: thence south easterly following the
Terengganu-Trengganu boundary and southerly and westerly following the Terengganu-Pahang
boundary to Gunung Tahan (7186'); thence north-westerly following the Terengganu-Pahang
boundary to a point where it meets the Daerah Lebir boundary (Ulu Sungai Ngeram): thence in a
direct line to the point of commencement.
 [Gazette (Terengganu Section) Notification No. 2, 3rd January 1952]

THE KING GEORGE V NATIONAL PARK (TERENGGANU)

ENACTMENT
(Terengganu Enactment No. 14 of 1938)

RULES FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE KING GEORGE V

NATIONAL PARK
IN exercise of the powers conferred by section 10 of the King George V national park
(Terengganu) Enactment 1938, His Excellency the High Commissioner and His Highness the
Sultan of Terengganu, as Trustees under the said Enactment of the State Park, hereby make the
following Rules for the administration of the State Park:

1. These Rules may be cited as the King George V National Park (Terengganu) Rules, 1951.

2. In these Rules -

"the Enactment" means the King George V National Park (Terengganu)

Enactment , 1938;

"the Park" means the State Park

3. (1) The Officer-in-Charge of the Park, with the approval of the High Commissioner,
may by notification in the Gazette, appoint an Officer, to be known as the
Superintendent, who shall be an Officer of the Game Department not below the
rank of Deputy Game Warden; and an Officer to be known as the Assistant
Superintendent, who shall be an Officer of the Game Department not below the
rank of Assistant Game Warden. Such Officers shall perform such of the duties
and exercise such of the powers conferred upon the Officer-in-Charge of the Park
by any of the provisions of the Enactment or by these Rules as may be specified
in such notif ication in the Gazette .

(2) The Officer-in-Charge of the Park may also by notification in the Gazette appoint
such Park Officials, being Officers of the Game Department of the rank of Game
Ranger, as may be necessary from time to time for the proper administration of
the Park. Park officials so appointed shall perform such of the duties and exercise
such of the powers conferred upon the Officer-in-Charge of the Park as shall be
specified for Park Officials in such notification in the Gazette .

(3) The Officer-in-Charge of the Park may also employ such boatmen, elephant
drivers (Gembala), labourers or other persons as shall be necessary from time to
time for the proper administration of the Park.

4 The Officer-in-Charge of the Park may use or occupy or permit any Park Official or any
other person to use or occupy land within the Park for the following purposes -

(a) the construction and maintenance of roads, paths and bridges;

 (b) the construction of dams and reservoirs for the supply of water to houses
or buildings within the Park;
(c) the construction and maintenance of dwelling-houses, buildings, rest
houses, halting bungalows and camping sites for the accomodation,
otherwise than for private profit, of Park Officials or their servants or
visiting members of the public or for the storing and safekeeping of
stores and equipment.

Provided that no person than a Park Official shall be permitted to reside within
the Park for a period of more than one month without the permission in writing
of the High Commissioner, which permission shall not be given without the
consent of the Trustees.

5 (1) The power of compounding offences conferred by Section 12 of the Enactment is hereby
delegated to the Officer-in-Charge of the Park, and such officer may further delegate such
power to any other Park Official.

(2) The powers and duties set out in Sections 13 and 14 of the Enactment shall be exercised
by and performed by the Officer-in-Charge of the Park and delegation in that behalf is
hereby made with power of further delegation:

Provided that no woman shall be searched except by a woman.

6. The Officer-in-Charge of the Park and the Superintendent shall be the Officers competent to
grant permission under sub-section (iii) of Section 9 of the Enactment.

7. The Officer-in-Charge of the Park with the approval of the High Commissioner, may
prescribe fees payable in respect of all or any of the following services and may alter or
amend such fees:

(a) the occupation of rest-houses and halting bungalows;

(b) the use of boats, elephants or other means of transport;
(c) the services of guides and attendants;
(d) the taking of photographs;
(e) the taking of fish with rod and line;
(f) any other service or user which may be specified in writing by the Officer-in-
Charge of the Park for which in the opinion of the said Officer-in-Charge a fee
should be prescribed.

8. The Officer-in-Charge of the Park may authorise any Park Official to clear, break up, dig and
plant such land as he may deem necessary for the purpose of growing food crops for the
consumption of such Official and his wife and children (and other dependants including
servants) or for the planting of flowering trees, shrubs or plants to increase the amenities at
any post.

Provided that such land shall be adjacent to a dwelling-house, rest-house or halting bungalow
and shall in no case extend to an area of more than one-half acre in respect of each married
Park Official, or; where Park Officials are not married, in respect of two such Officials and
their servants living at the same post or station.
9. (1) Subject to the provisions of Section 8 of the Enactment, no person shall enter or leave the
Park except with the written permission of the Officer-in-Charge of the Park and then
only by the route or point of entry or exit described in such permission. Every person so
entering the Park shall be bound to produce his permit to the Park Official in Charge of
the Post at the point of entry, to carry it upon his person and produce it to any Park
Official on demand and on completion of his visit to surrender it to the Park Official in
Charge of the Post at the point of exit. The Officer in Charge of the Park may impose
conditions when granting such written permission.

(2) Any person entering the Park without a permit or failing to comply with any of the
conditions specif ied in the permit or in sub-paragraph (1) of this Rule shall be guilty of an
offence against these Rules.

10. (1) Any person other than a person exempted under the provisions of the Enactment, desiring
to convey any firearm from one point to another within the boundaries of the Park shall
produce such firearm to the Superintendent or Assistant Superintendent who may issue a
permit for the carrying of such firearm. Before issuing such permit the Superintendent or
Assistant Superintendent shall record particulars of such firearm in a book provided for
the purpose. The holder of a permit upon his person and produce it on demand to any
Park Official and shall surrender it to the Park Official in Charge of the Post at the point
of exit.

(2) Any person to whom a permit is issued under this rule who fails to produce it on demand
whilst in the Park and to surrender it before leaving the Park shall be guilty of an offence
against these Rules.

11. (1) Except with a permit in writing under the hand of the Officer in Charge of the Park,
fishing within the boundaries of the Park is prohibited.

(2) A permit issued under this rule shall be valid for a period of thirty days from the date of
issue and shall be subject to the payment of such fee as may from time to time be
prescribed under Rule 7 of these Rules.

(3) Fishing within the boundaries of the Park shall be with rod and line only and shall be
within the area or areas approved by the Officer in Charge of the Park and endorsed upon
the face of a permit to take fish.

(4) In the interests of the proper conservation of fish in the Park the Officer in Charge of the
Park may grant or withhold a permit to any person and may place a limit upon the
number, size or species of fish which may be taken at any one place or during any
specified period of time. Any such restrictions imposed shall be endorsed on the permit.

(5) Any person found fishing within the boundaries of the Park to whom a permit has not
been issued or who fails to comply with the terms and restrictions endorsed upon his
permit shall be guilty of an offence against these Rules.

(6) Where any person is found in possession of freshly-taken fish within the boundaries of
the Park it shall be prima facie evidence that he has himself taken such fish and that such
fish has been taken within the boundaries of the Park.
12. Any person found guilty of an offence against these Rules shall on conviction be liable to
a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and for a second or subsequent offence to a fine
not exceeding two hundred dollars or to impr isonment of either description which may
extend to three months or to both such fine and imprisonment.

KOTA BHARU A. NOORDIN ZAKARIA

15th December 1951 Clerk of Councils, Terengganu