State Act

TAMIL NADU FOREST ACT - 1882

2. In this Act, and in all rules made hereunder, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context,- “Government” means the 1[State Government]: “Collector " means the chief executive Revenue- "Collector." officer of a district: “Forest-Officer " means any person appointed by name or as holding an office by or under the orders of the Government to be a Conservator, Deputy Conservator, Assistant Conservator, Extra 2[Assistant Conservator], Forest-ranger, Forester, Forest-guard: or to discharge any function of a Forest-officer under this Act or any rule made hereunder : “District-Forest-officer " means the chief Forest-officer of a district or of a portion of a district, if in independent charge of such portion: " tree " includes stumps, bamboos and brushwood: “timber” includes trees when they have fallen or have felled, and all wood, whether cut up or fashioned or hallowed out for any purpose or not : ““Scheduled timber” means any timber as specified in Schedule”” “forest produce” includes the following things when found in, or brought from, a forest (that is to say) :- minerals (including limestone and surface-soil, trees, timber, plants, grass, peat, canes, creepers, reeds, fibres, leaves, moss, flowers, fruits, Seeds, roots, galls, spices, juice, catechu, bark, caoutchouc, gum, wood-oil, resin, varnish, lac, charcoal, honey and wax, skins, tusks, bones and horns: 1[Explanation I- In the transferred territory, " forest-produce” also includes the following things, whether found in, or brought from, a forest or not, that is to say:- timber or trees which are specified to be royalties under section 40-G. Explanation II – For the purpose of Explanation I, timber does not include any wood that has been wrought or fashioned such as doors, windows, articles of furniture and boxes;] “forest-offence" means an offense punishable under this Act or any rule made hereunder: “Cattle” includes elephants, camels, buffaloes, horses, mares, ponies, colts, fillies, mules, asses, pigs, rams, ewes, sheep, lambs, goats and kids: "river " includes streams, canals, backwaters],creeks and other channels, natural or artificial: “land at the disposal of Government " includes all unoccupied land, whether assessed or unassessed; but does not include land, the property of landholders as defined by section 1 of Act VIII of 18652, Madras (namely) all person holding under sanad-i-milkiyat-i-istimrar, all other zamindars, shrotriyamdars, jagirdars, inamdars and all persons farming lands from the above persons or farming the land-revenue under Government ; also all holders of land under raiyatwar settlements, or in any way subject to the payment of land-revenue direct to Government, and all other registered holders of land in proprietary right: 1[Explanation – In the transferred territory, “land at the disposal of Government" also includes all land occupied temporarily and all land occupied without permission, whether assessed or unassessed, but does not include land, the property of jenmies or Devaswoms.] “Magistrate” means a Magistrate of the first and second class*, and includes a Magistrate of the third class* when he is specially empowered by Government to try forest-offences : “imprisonment” means imprisonment of either description as defined in the Indian Penal Code : 3,2“Scheduled Timber” means any timber as specified in the schedule. 1[“transferred territory” means the Kanyakumari district and the Shencottah taluk of the Tirunelveli district:]