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6 :(b) activities relating to the management of land for timber production such as thinning and other silvicultural activities;
 * (c) harvesting or collecting vegetation (whether living or dead and whether fallen or standing), indigenous animal life or other forest products that are of economic value; or
 * (d) the provision of roads and trails, and the maintenance of existing railways, to enable or assist in the operations and activities referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) or any combination thereof;

"grave natural disaster or phenomenon" means a natural disaster or other natural phenomenon of an exceptional, inevitable and irresistible character, the effects of which could not have been prevented by human action or avoided by the exercise of due care or foresight;

"haze pollution in Singapore" means pollution of the environment in Singapore comprising any poor air quality episode involving smoke from any land or forest fire wholly outside Singapore;

"land or forest fire" includes coal seam fire, peat fire or plantation fire;

"logging operations" means the cutting and removal of timber from land for the purpose of timber production;

"occupier", in relation to any land situated in a foreign State or territory outside Singapore, includes, if there is no person in actual occupation of the land, the person charged by the owner of the land, or by the law of the foreign State or territory, with the management of that land;

"owner", in relation to any land situated in a foreign State or territory outside Singapore, includes any person—
 * (a) who holds a valid lease, licence, permit, concession or other similar authorisation from a government of the foreign State or territory as regards land for the person to