{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-1967/section-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-1967/section-48.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1967/10",
  "legislation_title": "Forestry Act 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forestry-act-1967",
  "path": "section/48",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Powers of entry and enforcement.",
  "text": "(1) An officer of the appropriate enforcement authority or any other person authorised by the appropriate enforcement authority in that behalf may (on production, if so required, of his authority) enter on and survey any land for the purpose of ascertaining whether it is suitable for afforestation or for the purpose of inspecting any timber thereon, or for any other purpose in connection with the exercise of the powers and performance of the duties of the appropriate enforcement authority under this Act or the Plant Health Act 1967.\n(1A) In subsection (1) “the appropriate enforcement authority” means—\n(a) in relation to powers and duties of the Commissioners, the Commissioners;\n(b) in relation to powers and duties of the Welsh Ministers, the Welsh Ministers;\n(c) in relation to powers and duties of the Natural Resources Body for Wales, the Natural Resources Body for Wales.\n(2) The appropriate forestry authority may authorise an officer or servant appointed or employed by them to exercise and perform on their behalf such powers and duties as they may consider necessary for the enforcement of byelaws under section 46 of this Act, and in particular to remove or exclude, after due warning, from any land to which the byelaws relate a person who commits, or whom he reasonably suspects of committing an offence against the said section ....\n(3) Anyone who obstructs an officer or servant appointed or employed by the appropriate forestry authority in the due exercise or performance of his powers or duties under the foregoing subsection shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (S.) (1.4.2019) by Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018 (asp 8), s. 85(2), sch. 2 (with ss. 80, 83); S.S.I. 2019/47, reg. 2 (with transitional provisions and savings in regs. 3-22 (as amended (18.3.2021) by The Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018 (Consequential, Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/44), regs. 1(1), 11(2)(b)(3)(a)))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 48(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 77(2)(a) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 48(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 77(2)(b) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 48(1A) inserted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 77(3) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 48(2) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 77(4) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 48(2) omitted (29.6.2026) by virtue of Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 81(5), 208(1) (with s. 81(8)); S.I. 2026/690, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 48(3) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 77(4) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1;), ss. 39, 46, Sch. 3 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), Sch. 7D and expressed to be substituted (S.) (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 40, ss. 3, 7(2), Sch. 1 para. 10, Sch. 2 Pt.III"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1967 c. 8(2:11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1967/10/section/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:56:01.788833+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}