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Power to make rules. * * * * STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS Act 26 of 1989.- For scientific working of reserve forest, working plans covering period 15-20 years are drawn up. During the last 40 years, several changes have taken place due to inaccessible areas getting to be accessible, revenue forest being transferred to the Forest Department and surrendered Cardamon Genimalai areas being resumed by the Forest Department. In the revised working plan drawn up, these facts have been taken into consideration as also the need to set aside blocks of forests for being constituted as forest sanctuaries and biosphere reserves. These changes have resulted in revising the working system necessitating extraction to be taken up by Governmental agency in lieu of by the concessionaire industries. During 1981, the Forest Act was amended empowering the Government to abrogate the rates entered into in the agreements to prescribe new rates and to revise these rates once in two years. It is felt that considering the escalation in the prices covering certain individual species, Government be vested with the powers to revise the rates at lesser intervals. Hence this Bill. (Obtained from LAW 22 LGN 87.) * * * * KARNATAKA ACT No. 26 OF 1989. (First published in the Karnataka Gazette Extraordinary on the Thirtieth day of November, 1989) THE KARNATAKA SUPPLY OF FOREST PRODUCE BY GOVERNMENT (REVISION OF AGREEMENTS) ACT, 1987. (Received the assent of the President on the Third day of September, 1989) An Act to confer the Government of Karnataka with powers to revise and cancel certain agreements relating to the supply of forest produce by it and matters relating thereto. WHEREAS it is considered necessary that the State Government should have the powers to revise, alter or cancel, from time to time the terms of certain agreements relating to supply of forest produce to ensure the principles of scientific management of forest based upon the working plan prescriptions, working schemes or sequences revised from time to time and silvicultural requirements and to ensure that the prices paid therefor are fair and no loss of income is caused to the State and also that it should have the powers to cancel agreements with a view to protect and maintain ecological balances and to protect and improve the environment and to safeguard the forests and the wildlife in the State of Karnataka and to provide for matters relating thereto; BE it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the Thirty-eighth year of the Republic of India as follows :-