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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Forest Act, 1927 Section 28

FORMATION OF VILLAGE-FORESTS

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Forest Act, 1927 Section 28 is part of Forest Act, 1927 - FORMATION OF VILLAGE-FORESTS. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

1) "The State Government may assign to any village-community the rights of Government to or over any land which has been constituted a reserved forest, and may cancel such assignment. All forests so assigned shall be called village-forests.

(2) The State Government may make rules for regulating the management of village- forests, prescribing the conditions under which the community to which any such assignment is made may be provided with timber or other forest-produce or pasture, and their duties for the protection and improvement of such forest.

(3) All the provisions of this Act relating to reserved forests shall (so far as they are not inconsistent with the rules so made) apply to village-forests.

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What does Forest Act, 1927 Section 28 provide?

Section Section 28 of the Forest Act, 1927 (FORMATION OF VILLAGE-FORESTS) is reproduced on this page as part of the Forest Act, 1927. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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