அதிகாரப்பூர்வ மொழிபெயர்ப்புDepartment of Government Printing-இலிருந்து, மாற்றமின்றி
The following new sections are hereby inserted immediately after section 55A of the principal enactment and shall have effect as sections 55B, 55C and 55D of that enactment:—
55B. (1) The Director-General or any officer authorized in that behalf by the Director-General may after an inquiry seize and confiscate any timber felled in any National
Reserve or any state land in a Sanctuary.
(2)
The Director-General may order the sale of the timber confiscated under this section by public auction and credit the proceeds of such sale to the Wildlife Preservation Fund.
55C. It shall be lawful for an officer of the
Department of Wildlife Conservation to enter and search any timber depot or any place of any description where he has reasonable grounds to believe that any timber felled within any National Reserve or Sanctuary is being kept or stored.
55D. (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Forest Ordinance it shall be lawful for any wildlife officer of the Department of Wildlife Conservation—
(a)
to seize timber if found after due investigation to have been felled within any National Reserve or any State land within a Sanctuary; and
(b)
to transport timber to the nearest wildlife station, police station or to any court, any timber seized and confiscated in terms of this Ordinance under the authority of written permit issued in that behalf by an officer not below the rank of an Assistant Director of Wildlife
Conservation in the region.
Seizure of timber felled within a
National
Reserve or
Sanctuary.
Transportation of timber seized in terms of sections 55B and 55C.
“Powers of
Director-General to confiscate timber felled in a National
Reserve or
Sanctuary.
Act, No.22 of 2009
(2)
The Minister may make regulations for the issue of permits for the purpose of subsection (1).”.