State Act

TAMIL NADU FOREST ACT - 1882

1[56-A. In respect of any offence relating to any scheduled timber, any person who is found by the Magistrate to be the habitual offender, such person shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years but which shall not be less than two years and with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees but which shall not be less than three thousand rupees. Explanation.- For the purpose of this section, "habitual offender” means a person, who before or after the date of publication of the Tamil Nadu Forest (Amendment) Act, 1979 in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette has been sentenced to a substantive term of imprisonment (such sentence not having been set aside in appeal or revision) for not less than three occasions for any offence relating to any scheduled timber, each of the subsequent sentence having been passed in respect of such offence relating to any scheduled timber committed after the passing of the sentence on the previous occasions.