The Forest (Conservation) Amendment Act, 1988 (No. 69 of 1988) , 17 December 1988
Annual Review of Population Law 15: 236
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0364-3417 PMID: 12289482 Document Number: 341465
Major provisions of this Indian Act on Forest Conservation are summarized as follows: "New Clauses iii) and iv) have been inserted in Section 2a of the principal Act to provide that the leasing of forest land to private persons or any authority, corporation, agency, and any other organization not owned, managed, or controlled by the Government and clearing of trees which have grown naturally anywhere in any forest land for the purpose of using it for reforestation will require approval of the Central Government. (Section 2) The scope of the existing definition of 'non-forest purposes' has been expanded so as to include therein also cultivation of tea, coffee, spices, rubber, palms, oil-bearing plants, horticultural crops, and medicinal plants. (Section 2) New Sections 3a and 3b have been inserted in Section 3 of the principal Act. Section 3a provides that anyone who contravenes any of the provisions of Section 2 shall be punishable with simple imprisonment for a period up to 15 days. Section 3b provides that if any offence has been committed under this Act by any Government department or by any authority, then the head of the department or every person directly responsible for the conduct of the authority, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be punished."