268AUnlawfully setting fire to crops, forest, moorland, peat, &c.

268A Unlawfully setting fire to crops, forest, moorland, peat, &c.

[Section 268A Inserted by No. 17 of 1985, s. 5 ]

(1)  Any person who unlawfully sets fire to any vegetation, whether live or dead, is guilty of a crime.

Charge:  Unlawfully setting fire to vegetation.

(2)  Without limiting the generality of subsection (1) , a reference to vegetation in that subsection includes a reference to –

(a) any cultivated vegetable produce, whether standing or cut;

(b) any crop of hay or grass, whether the natural or indigenous product of the soil or not, whether under cultivation or not, and whether standing or cut;

(c) any forest, standing tree, sapling, or shrub, whether indigenous or cultivated;

(d) any moorland, heath, scrub, fern, tussocks, sags, gorse or other weeds; or

(e) any peat, humus, litter, bark, stump, or log.