आधिकारिक दस्तावेज़ / Official document
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- Jurisdiction
- Central
- Enactment date
- 1927-09-21
- Sections available
- 88
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1927-09-21
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1Short title and extent.→2Interpretation clause.→3Power to reserve forests.→4Notification by State Government.→5Bar of accrual of forest-rights.→6Proclamation by Forest Settlement-officer.→7Inquiry by Forest Settlement-officer.→8Powers of Forest Settlement-officer.→9Extinction of rights.→10Treatment of claims relating to practice of shifting cultivation.→11Power to acquire land over which right is claimed.→12Order on claims to rights of pasture or to forest-produce.→13Record to be made by Forest Settlement-officer.→14Record where he admits claim.→15Exercise of rights admitted.→16Commutation of rights.→17Appeal from order passed under section 11, section 12, section 15 or section 16.→18Appeal under section 17.→19Pleaders.→20Notification declaring forest reserved.→21Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood of forest.→22Power to revise arrangement made under section 15 or section 18.→23No right acquired over reserved forest, except as here provided.→24Rights not to be alienated without sanction.→25Power to stop ways and water-courses in reserved forests.→26Acts prohibited in such forests.→27Power to declare forest no longer reserved.→28Formation of village-forests.→29Protected forests.→30Power to issue notification reserving trees, etc.→31Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood.→32Power to make rules for protected forests.→33Penalties for acts in contravention of notification under section 30 or of rules under section 32.→34Nothing in this Chapter to prohibit acts done in certain cases.→35Protection of forests for special purposes.→36Power to assume management of forests.→37Expropriation of forests in certain cases.→38Protection of forests at request of owners.→39Power to impose duty on timber and other forest-produce.→40Limit not to apply to purchase-money or royalty.→41Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest-produce.→41APowers of Central Government as to movements of timber across customs frontiers.→42Penalty for breach of rules made under section 41.→43Governments and Forest-officers not liable for damage to forest-produce at depot.→44All persons bound to aid in case of accident at depot.→45Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of Government until title thereto proved, and may be collected accordingly.→46Notice to claimants of drift-timber.→47Procedure on claim preferred to such timber.→48Disposal of unclaimed timber.→49Government and its officers not liable for damage to such timber.→50Payments to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him.→51Power to make rules and prescribe penalties.→52Seizure of property liable to confiscation.→53Power to release property seized under section 52.→54Procedure thereupon.→55Forest-produce, tools, etc., when liable to confiscation.→56Disposal, on conclusion of trial for forest-offence, of produce in respect of which it was committed.→57Procedure when offender not known, or cannot be found.→58Procedure as to perishable property seized under section 52.→59Appeal from orders under section .55, section 56 or section 57.→60Property when to vest in Government.→61Saving of power to release property seized.→62Punishment for wrongful seizure.→63Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary-marks.→64Power to arrest without warrant.→65Power to release on a bond a person arrested.→66Power to prevent commission of offence.→67Power to try offences summarily.→68Power to compound offences and impose penalties.→69Presumption that forest-produce belongs to Government.→70Cattle-trespass Act, 1871, to apply.→71Power to alter fines fixed under that Act.→72State Government may invest Forest-officers with certain powers.→73Forest-officers deemed public servants.→74Indemnity for acts done in good faith.→75Forest-officers not to trade.→76Additional powers to make rules.→77Penalties for breach of rules.→78Rules when to have force of law.→79Persons bound to assist Forest-officers and police-officers.→80Management of forests the joint property of Government and other persons.→81Failure to perform service for which a share in produce of Government forest is enjoyed.→82Recovery of money due to Government.→83Lien on forest-produce for such money.→84Land required under this Act to be deemed to be needed for a public purpose under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894.→85Recovery of penalties due under bond.→85ASaving for rights of Central Government.→86[Repealed.].→
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