(NAR) VOL. 5 NO. 1/JANUARY - MARCH 1994
"SECTION 3. Requirement to Transport Forest Products. — Before any forest product shall be transported, the shipper and conveyance owner or their duly authorized representatives, except where said shipper and conveyance owner are one and the same person, shall enter into a transport agreement and shall submit the same to the Community Environment and Natural Resources Officer (CENRO) as a prerequisite to the issuance of a transport document. The transport agreement shall contain the undertaking that the conveyance owner shall also be held liable in case of illegally transported forest products.
"SECTION 10. Release of Conveyance. — Pursuant to Section 6 hereof, the proceedings under these regulations are directed against the conveyance itself. The fact that the owner of said conveyance has no knowledge that the conveyance was used in the transport or movement of illegal forest products does not free or absolve said conveyance from the penalty of the forfeiture. Accordingly, no conveyance shall be released on the basis of the owner's lack of knowledge of/or consent to the use of said conveyance. A conveyance seized under these regulations may be released on orders of the RED concerned but only on either or both of the following grounds, to wit:
a. that the forest products confiscated are in fact or were found to be not illegal or are covered with legal documents; or
b. that the conveyance was not used in the commission of any of the offenses penalized under Section 63 of P.D. 705, as amended.
"SECTION 13. Quarterly Report. — All REDs shall submit a quarterly report of forfeited and released conveyances under this Administrative Order to the Secretary, including a report on the forest products confiscated in connection therewith. The Undersecretary for Field Operations, the Undersecretary for Natural Resources Management, the Assistant Secretary for Legal Affairs and the Director, Forest Management Bureau shall also be furnished with copies of the reports.