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Preamble1 - Indian Forest Act, 1927
Chapter1 - Preliminary
Section1 - Short Title and Extent
Section2 - Interpretation Clause
Chapter2 - Of Reserved Forests
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
Chapter3 - Of Village-forests
Section28 - Formation of Village-forests
Chapter4 - Of Protected Forests
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
Chapter5 - Of the Control over Forests and Lands Not Being the Property of Government
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
Chapter6 - Of the Duty on Timber and Other Forest-produce
Section39 - Power to Impose Duty on Timber and Other Forest-produce
Section40 - Limit Not to Apply to Purchase-money or Royalty
Chapter7 - Of the Control of Timber and Other Forest-produce in Transit
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
Chapter8 - Of the Collection of Drift and Stranded Timber
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
Chapter9 - Penalties and Procedure
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
Chapter10 - Cattle-trespass
Section70 - Cattle-trespass Act, 1871, to Apply
Section71 - Power to Alter Fines Fixed Under That Act
Chapter11 - Of Forest-officers
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
Chapter12 - Subsidiary Rules
Section76 - Additional Powers to Make Rules
Section77 - Penalties for Breach of Rules
Section78 - Rules when to Have Force of Law
Chapter13 - Miscellaneous
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
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