State Act

Tamil Nadu Preservation of Private Forest Act 1949

2. In this Act unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context- (a) 'Committee' means any Committee constituted under Section 2A and having jurisdiction (aa) 'Forest' includes waste or communal land containing trees, shrubs and reeds; pasture land and any other class of land declared by the State Government, to be a forest by notification in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette; Explanation - For the purpose of the clause, 'communal land' means any land of the description mentioned in sub clause (a) or sub-clause (b) of clause (16) of section 3 of the Tamil Nadu Estates Land Act, 1908; (b) 'owner' in relation to a forest includes a mortgage lessee or other person having right to possession and enjoyment of the forest; (c) ‘person' includes a Hindu undivided family, a Marumakkattayam tarwad or tavazhi and an Aliyasanthana family or branch; (d) 'forest offence' means an offence punishable under the Act; (e) the expressions 'Forest Officer', 'tree', 'timber' 'Forest produce', 'cattle', 'Magistrate' and 'imprisonment'' shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in section 2 of the Tamil Nadu Forest Act, 1882.