13. Replacement of section 20 of the principal enactment

Section 20 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor:—

20. (1) A person who in a forest other than a

Conservation Forest, Reserved Forest or

Village Forest:—

causes damage by negligence when felling any tree or cutting or dragging any timber;

strips the bark or leaves from any tree or girdles, taps or burns any tree or otherwise damages any tree;

blocks any waterways within such forest or obtains water from such waterway by means of a pipeline or any other devices or pollutes or

quarries stone, burns lime or charcoal or collects any forest produce or subjects them to any process of manufacture, or extracts coral or mollusc shells, or digs or mines for plumbago, gems or any other mineral and uses or is in possession of explosives for such purposes;

feeds cattle with grass, hunts shoots, catches fish or sets traps, snares or guns;

makes any clearings;

sets fire or kindles any fire in such a manner as to endanger any forest or any part of such forest or leaves any fire burning;

kindles, keeps or carries any fire, except during such seasons and in such manner as may be authorized in that behalf from time to time;

fells, cuts, saws, converts, collects, removes or transports any tree or timber or collects, removes, transports or has in his possession, custody or control of any forest produce;

erects a scaffolding or constructs a saw pit;

clears or breaks up soil or digs any land for cultivation or for any other purpose or cultivates any land already cleared;

erects a hut or any building permanent or temporary or occupies any building so erected;

constructs any road or uses any road so constructed;

damages, alters or removes any name board or signboard or any wall, ditch embankment, fence, hurdle, gutter or any other boundary mark or marks false boundaries, shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not less than rupees five thousand and not exceeding rupees fifty thousand or to both such fine and imprisonment. In addition to the above, the

Any person who aids or abets in the commission of any offence specified in subsection (1), or causes any such offence to be committed shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to the same punishment as is specified for the commission of that offence.