Act Text
Preamble1 - Forest Act, 1927
Section1 - SHORT TITLE AND EXTENT
Section2 - INTERPRETATION CLAUSE In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,"
Section3 - POWER TO RESERVE FORESTS "The State Government may constitute any forest-land or waste-land which is the property of
Section4 - NOTIFICATION BY STATE GOVERNMENT
Section5 - BAR OF ACCRUAL OF FOREST-RIGHTS "After the issue of a notification under section 4-, no right shall be acquired in or
Section6 - PROCLAMATION BY FOREST SETTLEMENT-OFFICER "When a notification has been issued under section 4-, the Forest
Section7 - INQUIRY BY FOREST SETTLEMENT-OFFICER "The Forest Settlement-officer shall take down in writing all statements made
Section8 - POWERS OF FOREST SETTLEMENT-OFFICERS "For the purpose of such inquiry, the Forest Settlement-officer may exercise the
Section9 - EXTINCTION OF RIGHTS "Rights in respect of which no claim has been preferred under section 6-, and of the existence of
Section10 - TREATMENT OF CLAIMS RELATING TO PRACTICE OF SHIFTING CULTIVATION
Section11 - POWER TO ACQUIRE LAND OVER WHICH RIGHT IS CLAIMED
Section12 - ORDER ON CLAIMS TO RIGHTS OF PASTURE OR TO FORCST-PRODUCE "In the ease of a claim to rights of pasture or to
Section13 - RECORD TO BE MADE BY FOREST SETTLEMENT --OFFICER "The Forest Settlement- officer, when passing any order under section
Section14 - RECORD WHERE HE ADMITS CLAIM "If the Forest Settlement-officer admits in whole or in part any claim under section 12-,
Section15 - EXERCISE OF RIGHTS ADMITTED
Section16 - COMMUTATION OF RIGHTS "In case the Forest Settlement-officer finds it impossible having due regard to the maintenance
Section17 - APPEAL FROM ORDER PASSED UNDER SECTION 11, SECTION 12, SECTION 15 OR SECTION 16 "Any person who has made a claim under
Section18 - APPEAL UNDER SECTION 17
Section19 - PLEADERS - The State Government, or any person who has made a claim under this Act, may appoint any person to appear,
Section20 - NOTIFICATION DECLARING FOREST RESERVED
Section21 - PUBLICATION OF TRANSLATION OF SUCH NOTIFICATION IN NEIGHBOURHOOD OF FOREST "The Forest-officer shall, before the date
Section22 - POWER TO REVISE ARRANGEMENT MADE UNDER SECTION 15 OR SECTION 18 "The State Government may, within five years from the
Section23 - NO RIGHT ACQUIRED OVER RESERVED FOREST, EXCEPT AS HERE PROVIDED "No right of any description shall be acquired in or
Section24 - RIGHTS NOT TO BE ALIENATED WITHOUT SANCTION
Section25 - POWER TO STOP WAYS AND WATER-COURSES IN RESERVED FORESTS "The Forest-officer may, with the previous sanction of the
Section26 - ACTS PROHIBITED IN SUCH FORESTS
Section27 - POWER TO DECLARE FOREST NO LONGER RESERVED
Section28 - FORMATION OF VILLAGE-FORESTS
Section29 - PROTECTED FORESTS
Section30 - POWER TO ISSUE NOTIFICATION RESERVING TREES, ETC The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,"
Section31 - PUBLICATION OF TRANSLATION OF SUCH NOTIFICATION IN NEIGHBOURHOOD The Collector shall cause a translation into the local
Section32 - POWER TO MAKE RULES FOR PROTECTED FORESTS "The State Government may make rules to regulate the following matters,
Section33 - PENALTIES FOR ACTS IN CONTRAVENTION OF NOTIFICATION UNDER SECTION 30 OR OF RULES UNDER SECTION 32
Section34 - NOTHING IN THIS CHAPTER TO PROHIBIT ACTS DONE IN CERTAIN CASES "Nothing in this Chapter shall be deemed to prohibit any
Section35 - PROTECTION OF FORESTS FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES
Section36 - POWER TO ASSUME MANAGEMENT OF FORESTS
Section37 - EXPROPRIATION OF FORESTS IN CERTAIN CASES
Section38 - PROTECTION OF FORESTS AT REQUEST OF OWNERS
Section39 - POWER TO IMPOSE DUTY ON TIMBER AND OTHER FOREST-PRODUCE
Section40 - LIMIT NOT TO APPLY TO PURCHASE-MONEY OR ROYALTY "Nothing in this Chapter shall be deemed to limit the amount, if any,
Section41 - POWER TO MAKE RULES TO REGULATE TRANSIT OF FOREST PRODUCE
Section42 - PENALTY FOR BREACH OF RULES MADE UNDER SECTION 41
Section43 - GOVERNMENT AND FOREST-OFFICERS NOT LIABLE FOR DAMAGE TO FOREST-PRODUCE AT DEPOT "The Government shall not be
Section44 - ALL PERSONS BOUND TO AID IN CASE OF ACCIDENTS AT DEPOT "In case of any accident or emergency involving danger to any
Section45 - CERTAIN KINDS OF TIMBER TO BE DEEMED PROPERTY OF GOVERNMENT UNTIL TITLE THERETO PROVED, AND MAY BE COLLECTED ACCORDINGLY
Section46 - NOTICE TO CLAIMANTS OF DRIFT TIMBER "Public notice shall from time to time be given by the Forest-officer, of timber
Section47 - PROCEDURE ON CLAIM PREFERRED TO SUCH TIMBER
Section48 - DISPOSAL OF UNCLAIMED TIMBER "If no such statement is presented as aforesaid, or if the claimant omits to prefer his
Section49 - GOVERNMENT AND ITS OFFICERS NOT LIABLE FOR DAMAGE TO SUCH TIMBER "The Government shall not be responsible for any loss
Section50 - PAYMENTS TO BE MADE BY CLAIMANT BEFORE TIMBER IS DELIVERED TO HIM "No person shall be entitled to recover possession of
Section51 - POWER TO MAKE RULES AND PRESCRIBE PENALTIES
Section52 - SEIZURE OF PROPERTY LIABLE TO CONFISCATION
Section53 - POWER TO RELEASE PROPERTY SEIZED UNDER SECTION 52 "Any Forest-officer of a rank not inferior to that of a Ranger who,
Section54 - PROCEDURE THEREUPON "Upon the receipt of any such report, the Magistrate shall, with all convenient despatch, take such
Section55 - FOREST-PRODUCE, TOOLS, ETC., WHEN LIABLE TO CONFISCATION
Section56 - DISPOSAL ON CONCLUSION OF TRIAL FOR FOREST-OFFENCE, OF PRODUCE IN RESPECT OF WHICH IT WAS COMMITTED "When the trial of
Section57 - PROCEDURE WHEN OFFENDER NOT KNOWN OR CANNOT BE FOUND "When the offender is not known or cannot be found, the Magistrate
Section58 - PROCEDURE AS TO PERISHABLE PROPERTY SIEZED UNDER SECTION 52 "The Magistrate may, notwithstanding anything hereinbefore
Section59 - APPEAL FROM ORDERS UNDER SECTION 55, SECTION 56 OR SECTION 57 "The officer who made the seizure under section 52-, or
Section60 - PROPERTY WHEN TO VEST IN GOVERNMENT "When an order for the confiscation of any property has been passed under section
Section61 - SAVING OF POWER TO RELEASE PROPERTY SEIZED "Nothing hereinbefore contained shall be deemed to prevent any officer
Section62 - PUNISHMENT FOR WRONGFUL SEIZURE "Any Forest-officer or Police-officer who vexatiously and unnecessarily seizes any
Section63 - PENALTY FOR COUNTERFEITING OR DEFACING MARKS ON TREES AND TIMBER AND FOR ALTERING BOUNDARY MARKS"WHOEVER, WITH INTENT
Section65 - POWER TO RELEASE ON A BOND A PERSON ARRESTED "Any Forest-officer of a rank not inferior to that of a Ranger, who, or
Section66 - POWER TO PREVENT COMMISSION OF OFFENCE "Every Forest-officer and Police- officer shall prevent, and may interfere for
Section67 - POWER TO TRY OFFENCES SUMMARILY "The District Magistrate or any Magistrate of the first class specially empowered in
Section68 - POWER TO COMPOUND OFFENCES
Section69 - PRESUMPTION THAT FOREST-PRODUCE BELONGS TO GOVERNMENT When in any proceedings taken under this Act, or in consequence
Section70 - CATTLE-TRESPASS ACT, 1871, TO APPLY Cattle trespassing in a reserved forest or in any portion of a protected forest
Section71 - POWER TO ALTER FINES FIXED UNDER THAT ACT "The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct
Section72 - STATE GOVERNMENT MAY INVEST FOREST-OFFICERS WITH CERTAIN POWERS
Section74 - INDEMNITY FOR ACTS DONE IN GOOD FAITH No suit shall lie against any public servant for anything done by him in good
Section75 - FOREST-OFFICERS NOT TO TRADE Except with the permission in writing of the State Government, no Forest-officer shall, as
Section76 - ADDITIONAL POWERS TO MAKE RULES The State Government may make rules"
Section77 - PENALTIES FOR BREACH OF RULES Any person contravening any rule under this Act, for the contravention of which no
Section78 - RULES WHEN TO HAVE FORCE OF LAW All rules made by the State Government under this Act shall be published in the
Section79 - PERSONS BOUND TO ASSIST FOREST-OFFICERS AND POLICE-OFFICERS
Section80 - MANAGEMENT OF FORESTS THE JOINT PROPERTY OF GOVERNMENT AND OTHER PERSONS
Section81 - FAILURE TO PERFORM SERVICE FOR WHICH A SHARE IN PRODUCE OF GOVERNMENT FOREST IS EMPLOYED If any person be entitled to a
Section82 - RECOVERY OF MONEY DUE TO GOVERNMENT All money payable to the Government under this Act, or under any rule made under
Section83 - LIEN ON FOREST-PRODUCE FOR SUCH MONEY
Section85 - RECOVERY OF PENALTIES DUE UNDER BOND "When any person, in accordance with any provision of this Act, or in compliance
Section85A - SAVING FOR RIGHTS OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT Nothing in this Act shall authorise a Government of any State to make any order
Section86 - REPEALS [Rep. by Repealing and Amending Act, 1947
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