Andasl?affi Axad — TIIE INDIAN FORFST ACT, 1927

ETry"€EIffi HqT Andasl?affi Axad a wm tiq| sTgrqr$T EXTRAORDIFJARY * sa-rftrfr IlBr+-iq RD * Published Authoe"i ri. sr d{r, yswfrrfi{, i 20M No. 81 Pori Blair, Thursday, April 1, 2A04 ANI}A}{AI{ AND NICOBAR ADNdINISTRATION (DEPARTMENT OF ENURONIvIENT & FOFdSTS) ryo'ITFICATTON Port Blair, dated the 1't April, 2004 "'' No.76/2AAalF.No.F.(T/21/1.- In exercise of the powers conferred by seetion 41 and 42 rf the-Indian Forest Act (16 of 1927), read with the Goverr:ment of India, Ministry of Home lffairs' Notification No, 69/49/50 AN drted7.11.i951, the'Hon'ble Lt. Governor, Andaman & {icobdr Isiands is pieased to make the following amendments to the Andaman and Nicobar Isiands 't 'orest Pioduce Transit Ruies, 1966 rvith immediate effect. A,V[ENDIVIET\TS In Rule 2, the follo'r,vin_a definitions shaii be added:- (d) "srwing" r,vith its grarnmatical variations and cognate expression means'Eperation of sa''ving, cutting, converting, fashroning or seasonjng wood and includes preservation and .treatment thereof either by mechanical process with the aid of electdcal or mechanical power or by manuaily operated saws; (e) "r.vood" inciudes trees r.vhen they have fallen or have been felled, and all wood of any species whether cut, converied, fastrioned, sau.n or hollol.,.ed out for any pupose or not and. (0 lvords and expressions ilsed bui. not riefined in rhese Rules but dei-ineci in ihe ir:dian Forest Act (16 of 1927). sirati have the meanings respecti-iely assigned to them in that -{ci. (l) h RLile i the.,void -'imponed" ''ii" -*hail be insened befbre ihe.;uord "el{pcrted" irnd the word ''inio" shali be insedeC aiter lire uv'ot:e "t'olttes". ,l: I: F.i:ie -i i t ili: tt'cilis ''g1' ,71'r1;.1i .r,, iiiLrli i-,,laest Lrilr{-1r-ic:'" sh,ili be inseri:',-t :tiisl' ii.e *u:i't 'i::* --i.