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1 [(1)] All money payable to the StateGovernment under this Act, or under any rule made under this Act, or on accountof the price of any forest produce, or of expenses incurred in the execution ofthis Act in respect of such produce, may, if not paid when due, be recovered asif it were an arrear of land revenue.
2 [(2)Notwithstanding any thing contained in sub-section (1) or in any other law forthe time being in force, on an application made by a Forest Officer, for therecovery of arrears of any sum due by any person towards lease, rent, forestdevelopment tax, royalty, price of any forest produce or any other sum dueunder this Act, or any rule, order or notification made or issued thereunder,the Conservator of Forest may after making an enquiry and giving a reasonableopportunity of being heard to such person, decide the sum due, and issue a certificatefor recovery of the said sum.
(3)An order made under sub-section (2), shall be binding on the person againstwhom it is made and shall, if not carried out, on a certificate signed by theConservator of Forest, be deemed to be a decree of Civil Court, and shall beexecuted in the same manner as a decree of such Court.]
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1.Renumbered by Act 20 of 2000 w.e.f. 4.10.2000.
2.Inserted by Act 20 of 2000 w.e.f. 4.10.2000.