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Repeal and saving. THE KERALA PRESERVATION OF PRIVATE FORESTS ACT, 1972 * .. (Act 16 of 1972) An Act to prevent the indiscriminate destruction of prh·ate forests and to regulate the customary and prescriptive rights therein Preamble.-WHEREAS the Kerala High Court has struck down the Kerala Private Forests (Vesting and Assignment) Act, 1971, as unconstitutional and void: AND WHEREAS appeals nave been filed before the Supreme Court against the above decision of the Kerala High Court ; 7 AND vVHEREAS some Original Petitions I challengmg the validity of the said Act are pending in the Supreme Court; AND WHEREAS pending decision of the Supreme Court in the appeals and Original Petitions referred • Published m the Gazette Extraordmary No. 625, dated 2nd November, 1972. 48 to above, it is considered necessary to pre,·ent the indifwriminate destruction of pnvate forests and ~o regulate the customary and prescriptive rights therein ; BE it enacted in the Twenty-third Year of the • • Republic of India as follows:-