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Power to remove difficulties. An Act to provide for the regulation of the cutting of trees and the cultivation land in hill areas in the State of Tamil Nadu. The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legislature received the assent of Governor on the 2nd September 1955 and is hereby published for general information. WHEREAS there has been indiscriminate cutting of trees in hill stations in the State of Tamil Nadu involving large-scale deforestation and resulting in considerable soil erosion. AND WHEREAS with a view to prevent deforestation and soil erosion and all to preserve the special characteristics of the hill areas as regards landscape, vegetal cover and climate, it is necessary to regulate the cutting trees also the cultivation of land in hill areas in the State of Tamil Nadu. BE it enacted in the Sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:- Short title and application