CHAPTER III PROTECTED FORESTS

Section 26: Power to issue notification reserving trees, etc

The Andhra Pradesh Forest Act, 1967

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Andhra Pradesh (Environment, Forest, Science and Technology Department), with amendments up to Act 15 of 2016 (the Andhra Pradesh Forest (Amendment) Act, 2016).

Chapter IIIA (sections 28A to 28G, Preservation of Private Forests) applies only in the Scheduled Areas and is not part of this India Code text; it is printed in the 2012 text of the Act hosted by the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority, and the instrument that inserted it has not been identified.

(1) The Government may, by notification,-

(a) declare any trees or class of trees in a protected forest to be reserved from a date fixed by the notification;

(b) prohibit, from a date fixed as aforesaid the quarrying of stone, or the burring of lime or charcoal or the collection or subjection to any manufacturing process or removal of, any forest-produce in any such forest and the breaking up or clearing for cultivation, for building, for herding cattle or for any other purpose, of any such forest.

(2) A translation into the main language of the locality of every notification issued under this section shall be caused to be affixed in a conspicuous place in every town and village in the neighbourhood of the protected forest comprised in the notification.