THE KARNATAKA FOREST (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2015
(First Published in the Karnataka Gazette Extra-ordinary on the Twenty third day of December 2015)
(Received the assent of the Governor on the Twenty first day of December 2015) An Act further to amend the Karnataka Forest Act, 1963.
Whereas it is expedient further to amend the Karnataka Forest Act, 1963 (Karnataka Act 5 of 1964), for the purposes hereinafter appearing;
Be it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the Sixty sixth year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short title and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Karnataka Forest (Amendment) Act, 2015.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
2. Amendment of section 98A.- In the Karnataka Forest Act, 1963 (Karnataka Act 5 of 1964) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in section 98A, in sub-section (1),-
(i) for the words "eight percent" the words "twelve percent" shall be substituted; and,
(ii) the first proviso shall be omitted.
3. Amendment of section 98B.- In section 98B of the Principal Act, for sub-section (4), the following shall be substituted, namely:-
"(4). The amount at credit of the said fund shall be expended only for one or more of the following purposes, namely:-
(a) raising of plantations in notified forest areas and such other purposes as are ancillary thereto namely soil and moisture conservation works in notified forest areas;
(b) consolidation of the boundaries of notified forest areas;
(c) Acquisition of private areas for the consolidation of forests;
(d) construction and maintenance of forest housing in rural areas for frontline staff;
(e) training, capacity building, research and technology;
(f) sustaining Joint Forest Planning and Management activities and the Village Forest Committees/eco development committees;
(g) rehabilitation and resettlement of people from interior forest areas;
(h) such other activities relating to Forest development or management or wild life protection and management as may be notified by the State Government from time to time".
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