section 3
Extension of Tamil Nadu Act XXVII of 1949
Tamil Nadu Preservation of Private Forests Act, 1949Environmental194933 sections
Statutory text
- (1) (a) No owner of any forest shall, without the previous sanction of the committee, sell, mortgage, lease or otherwise alienate the whole or any portion of the forest. Explanation - Nothing in this sub-section shall be construed as preventing the owner from selling or otherwise dealing with the right to gather and remove forest produce other than trees, timber and reeds in the usual or customary manner, for a period not exceeding two years.
- (b) Any alienation in contravention of clause
- (a) shall be null and void-
- (i) if the alienation is of any forest declared by the District Collector to be a forest under clause
- (iii) of section 1
- (2) or of any portion of such a forest, and is made on or after the date on which the declaration takes effect.
- (iii) if the alienation is of any other forest or of any portion of such a forest, and is made on or after the 16th August 1946.
- (2) No owner of any forest, and no person claiming under him, whether by virtue of a contract, license or any other transaction entered into before or after the commencement, of the Tamil Nadu Preservation of Private Forest Act, 1946, or any other person shall, without the previous permission of the Committee cut trees or reds or do any act likely to denude the forest or diminish its utility as a forest:
- (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section
- (1) or sub-section (2), the State Government may exempt any forest or class of forests or class of trees therein from all or any of the provisions of this section.
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