The Nagaland Forest Act, 1968

Preamble

THE NAGALAND ACT 3 OF 1968 [THE NAGALAND FOREST ACT, 1968.] [Published in the Nagaland Gazette-Extraordinary, Dated 1st April, 1968.] Received the assent of the President of India on the 27th March, 1968. An Act to amend and consolidate the law relating to Forest, Produce, and the Duty liviable on timber in Nagaland. Preamble. - WHEREAS it is expedient to amend and consolidate the law relating to forest, produce, and the duty leviable on timber in Nagaland; It is hereby enacted in the Nineteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows :- CHAPTER LaCPU PRELIMINARY Title, extent and commencement. - 1. (1) This Act may be called the Nagaland Forest Act, 1968. (2) It extends to the whole of Nagaland; Provided that the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, exempt any place from the operation of the whole or any part thereof, and withdraw such exemption. (3) It shall come into force on such day as the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette directs. (4) A notification under the proviso to sub-section (2) exempting a place from the operation of the whole or any part of the Act shall not affect anything done, or any offence committed, or any fine or penalty imposed in such place before such exemption. Definitions. - 2. In this Act, and in all rules made thereunder, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context: - (1) "cattle" includes also elephants, buffaloes, horses, mares, geldings, ponies, colts, fillies, mules, asses, pigs, mithuns, sheeps, [rams, ewes] lambs, goats, and kids; (2) "Forest offence" means an offence punishable under this Act or any rule thereunder; (3) "Forest officer" means any person appointed by name or as holding an office by or under the orders of the State Government to be a Conservator or Director or Director of Forest, Deputy Conservator, Assistant Conservator, Forest Ranger, Deputy Ranger, Forester or Forest Guard, or to discharge any function of Forest Officer under this Act or any rule thereunder; (4) "Forest produce" includes: - (a) the following, whether found in, or brought from a forest or not, that is to say, - timber, charcoal caoutchouc, catechu, wood oil, resin, natural varnish, bark, lac, myrabolams, rhinoceros horns, and (b) the following when found in, or brought from a forest, that is to say: - (i) trees and leave, [flowers]2 and fruits and all other parts or produce not hereinbefore mentioned of trees, (ii) plants not being trees (including grass, creepers, reeds and moss), and all parts of produce of such plants, (iii) wild animals, birds, butterflies, insects and skins, tusks and [horns (other than rhinoceros horns), bones, silk cocoons]' honey and wax and all other parts of produce of animals, and (iv) peat, surface soil, rock and minerals (including limestone, laterite, mineral oils and all produces of mines or quarries); (5) "Government" means the Government of Nagaland; (6) "Land at the disposal of the Government" means land in respect of which no person has acquired -

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