Section 8
Substitution of section 12
of National Forestry (Amendment) Act 2022
The principal Act is amended by substituting for section 12
the following section:
“State Authority to replace land excised from permanent reserved forest
Quoted provision
Section 12
Where the State Authority intends to excise any land from a permanent reserved forest, the State Authority shall identify an equal or a bigger area of land to replace the land to be excised as a permanent reserved forest.
(2)
The State Authority shall constitute the area of land identified under subsection (1) as a permanent reserved forest by publishing in the Gazette a notification in accordance with section 7 and the notification shall be published together with a notification under subsection 13(1).”.
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