Section 1

Short title, extent and commencement.

The Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act, 2016.

Act 38 of 2016
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

About this Act

An Act to provide for the establishment of funds under the public accounts of India and the public accounts of each State and crediting thereto the monies received from the user agencies towards compensatory afforestation, additional compensatory afforestation, penal compensatory afforestation, net present value and all other amounts recovered from such agencies under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, constitution of an authority at national level and at each of the State and Union territory Administration for administration of the funds and to utilise the monies so collected for undertaking artificial regeneration (plantations), assisted natural regeneration, protection of forests, forest related infrastructure development, Green India Programme, wildlife protection and other related activities and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

All sections

    (1) This Act may be called the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act, 2016.
     (2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir*.
     (3) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, it shall come into force on such date¹ as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

Notes

¹ 30th September, 2018, vide notification NO. S.O. 3967(E), dated 13th August, 2018, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii).
^*. Vide notification No. S.O. 3912(E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is made applicable to the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh.