Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Act not to apply to certain areas.— Nothing in this Act shall apply to the Government, a Government forest under the control of the Forest Department, a forest or forest land notified under the Indian Forest Act1927. 31.Power of the Government to exempt.— Subject to such conditions, if any, as may be imposed, the Government may, if it considers it necessary so to do in the public interest, by notification, exempt any area or any species of trees from all or any of the provisions of this Act. 32.Power of the Government for Preservation of trees.— (1) The Government may in the interest of general public, declare by notification that any class of trees shall not be felled for such period as is specified in that notification. (2) The management of such trees shall be regulated in the prescribed manner. 21[32A. Powers of Government in respect of Commercial Plantation: - The Government may, by notification in official Gazette, specify the terms and conditions for carrying out commercial Plantation in the State of Goa and exempt such areas from the provision of this Act.]