Short Title

This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Forest Act, 1882. It extends to the whole of the State of Tamil Nadu Provided that the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, exempt any place from the operation of the whole or any portion of this Act but not so as to affect anything done or any offence committed or any fine or penalty incurred or any proceedings commenced in such place before such exemption, and may in like manner vary or cancel such notification; and it shall come into force on such day as the Government may by notification in the Official Gazette direct.