Act Info:
Preamble1 - INDIAN FOREST ACT, 1927
Chapter 1 Section1 - Short title and extent
Section2 - Interpretation clause
Chapter 2 Section3 - Power to reserve forests
Section4 - Notification by State Government
Section5 - Bar of accrual of forest-rights
Section6 - Proclamation by Forest Settlement-officer
Section7 - Inquiry by Forest Settlement-officer
Section8 - Powers of Forest Settlement-officers
Section9 - Extinction of rights
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 forest-produce
Section13 - Record to be made by Forest Settlement-officer
Section14 - Record where he admits claim
Section15 - Exercise of rights admitted
Section16 - Commutation of rights
Section17 - Appeal from order passed under section 11, section 12, section 15 or section 16
Section18 - Appeal under section 17
Section19 - Pleaders
Section20 - Notification declaring forest reserved
Section21 - Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood of forest
Section22 - Power to revise arrangement made under section 15 or section 18
Section23 - No right acquired over reserved forest, except as here provided
Section24 - Rights not to be alienated without sanction
Section25 - Power to stop ways and water-courses in reserved forests
Section26 - Acts prohibited in such forests
Section27 - Power to declare forest no longer reserved
Chapter 3 Section28 - Formation of village-forests
Chapter 4 Section29 - Protected forests
Section30 - Power to issue notification reserving trees, etc.
Section31 - Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood
Section32 - Power to make rules for protected forests
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
Chapter 5 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
Chapter 6 Section39 - Power to impose duty on timber and other forest-produce
Section40 - Limit not to apply to purchase-money or royalty
Chapter 7 Section41 - Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest produce
Section41A - Powers of Central Government as to movements of timber across customs frontiers
Section42 - Penalty for breach of rules made under section 41
Section43 - Government and Forest-officers not liable for damage to forest-produce at depot
Section44 - All persons bound to aid in case of accidents at depot
Chapter 8 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
Section47 - Procedure on claim preferred to such timber
Section48 - Disposal of unclaimed timber
Section49 - Government and its officers not liable for damage to such timber
Section50 - Payments to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him
Section51 - Power to make rules and prescribe penalties
Chapter 9 Section52 - Seizure of property liable to confiscation
Section53 - Power to release property seized under section 52
Section54 - Procedure thereupon
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
Section57 - Procedure when offender not known or cannot be found
Section58 - Procedure as to perishable property seized under section 52
Section59 - Appeal from orders under section 55, section 56 or section 57
Section60 - Property when to vest in Government
Section61 - Saving of power to release property seized
Section62 - Punishment for wrongful seizure
Section63 - Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary marks
Section64 - Power to arrest without warrant
Section65 - Power to release on a bond a person arrested
Section66 - Power to prevent commission of offence
Section67 - Power to try offences summarily
Section68 - Power to compound offences
Section69 - Presumption that forest-produce belongs to Government
Chapter 10 Section70 - Cattle-trespass Act, 1871, to apply
Section71 - Power to alter fines fixed under that Act
Chapter 11 Section72 - State Government may invest Forest-officers with certain powers
Section73 - Forest officers deemed public servants
Section74 - Indemnity for acts done in good faith
Section75 - Forest-officers not to trade
Chapter 12 Section76 - Additional powers to make rules
Section77 - Penalties for breach of rules
Section78 - Rules when to have force of law
Chapter 13 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
Section82 - Recovery of money due to Government
Section83 - Lien on forest-produce for such money
Section84 - Land required under this Act to be deemed to be needed for a public purpose under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894
Section85 - Recovery of penalties due under bond
Section85A - Saving for rights of Central Government
Section86 - Repeals
Schedule1 - THE SCHEDULE