CHAPTER VII. OFFENCES AND PENALTIES.

Section 40: Penalty for cutting down or destroying [xxx] excise trees

The Telangana Excise Act, 1968

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Telangana (Revenue Department): the Andhra Pradesh Excise Act, 1968 as in force in the combined State on 2 June 2014, adapted to Telangana under section 101 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 by the notification issued in G.O.Ms.No.162, Revenue (Excise-II) Department, dated 10.09.2015, with amendments up to Act No.32 of 2017.

Amendments made by Andhra Pradesh after 2 June 2014, such as A.P. Acts 2, 4 and 17 of 2020, do not apply in Telangana and are not in this text.

Whoever contravenes the provisions of section 27, shall, on conviction, ¹[be punished with imprisonment,–

(i) in case of the first offence, for a term which shall not be less than three months and with fine which shall not be less than one thousand rupees; and

(ii) in case of the second and subsequent offences for a term which shall not be less than six months and with fine which shall not be less than two thousand rupees;]

Footnotes in the official text

1.Substituted by Act No.10 of 1989. [‘Government’ in marginal heading omitted].