CHAPTER III Protected Forests

Section 26: Power to issue notification reserving trees, etc.,

The Telangana Forest Act, 1967

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Telangana (Environment, Forests, Science and Technology Department): the Andhra Pradesh Forest Act, 1967 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 G.O.Ms.No.22, E.F.S&T (For.I) Department, dated 13.05.2015, with amendments up to Act No.35 of 1997.

Amendments made by Andhra Pradesh after 2 June 2014, such as the Andhra Pradesh Forest (Amendment) Act, 2016, do not apply in Telangana and are not in this text.

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 Andhra Pradesh Forest Act hosted by the Telangana Forest Department, and the Telangana Preservation of Private Forest Rules, 1978, made under section 28-G for the scheduled areas, were adopted in Telangana by G.O.Ms.No.22 of 13.05.2015; the instrument that inserted the chapter 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.