Section 6 Requirements for haulage facilities.F1

The provisions of this section shall have effect where the F2appropriate forestry authority are of opinion that insufficient facilities exist for the haulage of timber from any wood or forest to a road, railway or waterway.

Subject to the following subsections, the appropriate forestry authority may, where they are of the said opinion, make an order that the owner and occupier of any land shall afford the necessary facilities, subject to payment by the person in whose favour the order is made of reasonable rent or wayleave and of compensation for any damage caused by the haulage, and the owner or occupier shall thereupon comply with the order.

The appropriate forestry authority shall not make an order under this section until the person proposed to be required to give the said facilities has had an opportunity of being heard.

a person aggrieved by an order under this section may–

The amount of rent or wayleave and compensation for damage which is payable in consequence of an order made under this section shall, in default of agreement, be assessed F6...—