Kerala Lime Shells (Control)ActState Act of Kerala · Act 18 of 1957
(1) The provisions ot this Act shall not apply to the collection, stocking or selling of lime-shellx by any person as curios or for making ornaments.
(2) Subject to such conditions and restrictions as the Government may think fit to impose, they may, by general or special order 71 notified in the Gazette, exempt from allor any of the provisions of this Act, any person or class of persons who.—
(i) collect lime-shell and stock them for conversion into lime for use as an ingredient in chewing matenal, or
(ii) collect and sell hme-shells for the edible content thereof.