Section 3: Authorised officers and appellate Authorities
The Kerala Preservation of Trees Act, 1986State Act of Kerala · Act 35 of 1986
(1) The Government may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint such officers not below the rank of a Ranger as they think fit to be authorized officers for the purposes of this Act and may assign to them such local limits as the Government think fit.
* Received the assent of the President on the 1st day of December, 1986 and published in the Kerala Gazette Extraordinary No. 1091 dated 1st December, 1986.
(2) The Government may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint such officers as they think fit to be appellate authorities for the purposes of this Act and may assign to them such local limits as the Government think fit.