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Forest Act, 1963 Chapter 2

Title: Reserved Forests

State: Karnataka

Year: 1963

.....Act (1) Any forest which has been notified as a State Forest under the Mysore Forest Act, 1900, or as a reserved forest under the Indian Forest Act, 1927, the Madras Forest Act, 1882, or the Hyderabad Forest Act, 1355F, prior to the date on which this Act comes into force, shall be a reserved forest under this Act: Provided that if the rights of private persons to or over any land or forest produce in such forest shall not have been inquired into, settled and recorded in a manner which the State Government deems sufficient, the same shall be inquired into, settled and recorded in the manner provided by this Act; and until such inquiry, settlement and record have been completed, the operation of this section shall not abridge, or affect such rights. (2) All questions decided, orders issued and records prepared in connection with the constitution of such forest as a State Forest or reserved forest shall be deemed to have been decided, issued and prepared under this Act, and the provisions of this Act relating to reserved forests shall apply to forests to which the provisions of sub-section (1) are applicable. Section 24 - Acts prohibited in reserved forests Any person.....

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Indian Forest Act, 1927 Chapter 2

Title: Of Reserved Forests

State: Central

Year: 1927

..... (c) fixing a period of not less than three months from the date of such proclamation, and requiring every person claiming any right mentioned in section 4 or section 5 within such period either to present to the Forest Settlement-officer a written notice specifying or to appear before him and state, the nature of such right and the amount and particulars of the compensation (if any) claimed in respect thereof. Section 7 - Inquiry by Forest Settlement-officer The Forest Settlement-officer shall take down in writing all statements made under section 6, and shall at some convenient place inquire into all claims duly preferred under that section, and the existence of any rights mentioned in section 4 or section 5 and not claimed under section 6 so far as the same may be ascertainable from the records of Government and the evidence of any persons likely to be acquainted with the same. Section 8 - Powers of Forest Settlement-officers For the purpose of such inquiry, the Forest Settlement-officer may exercise the following powers, that is to say: (a) power to enter, by himself or any officer authorised by him for the purpose, upon any land, and to survey, demarcate and.....

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Forest Act, 1963 Section 19

Title: Power to Revise Arrangements Made Under Section 14 and to Redefine the Limitsof Reserved Forests in Certain Cases

State: Karnataka

Year: 1963

.....15. (2) Where the description of the limits of any reserved forest notified under section 17 is defective or is not clear in reference to existing facts, the State Government may, by notification, declare its intention to redefine the limits of such reserved forest so as to remove the defect or to make the description clear in reference to existing facts. Such notification shall specify as nearly as possible the corrections which it is proposed to effect to the limits of the reserved forest. (3) On the issue of a notification under sub-section (2), the1[Deputy Conservator of Forest] shall publish at the headquarters of each taluk, in which any portion of the land comprised in such notification is situate and in every town and village in the neighbourhood of such land, a notice,-- (a) specifying the corrections proposed by the notification under sub-section (2); and (b) stating that any objections which may be made in person or in writing to the1[Deputy Conservator of Forest], within a period of thirty days from the date of publication of the notice will be considered by him. (4) After the expiry of the period referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (3) and after.....

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Forest Act, 1963 Section 23

Title: Reserved Forests Constituted Previous to Passing of This Act

State: Karnataka

Year: 1963

(1) Any forest which has been notified as a State Forest under the Mysore Forest Act, 1900, or as a reserved forest under the Indian Forest Act, 1927, the Madras Forest Act, 1882, or the Hyderabad Forest Act, 1355F, prior to the date on which this Act comes into force, shall be a reserved forest under this Act: Provided that if the rights of private persons to or over any land or forest produce in such forest shall not have been inquired into, settled and recorded in a manner which the State Government deems sufficient, the same shall be inquired into, settled and recorded in the manner provided by this Act; and until such inquiry, settlement and record have been completed, the operation of this section shall not abridge, or affect such rights. (2) All questions decided, orders issued and records prepared in connection with the constitution of such forest as a State Forest or reserved forest shall be deemed to have been decided, issued and prepared under this Act, and the provisions of this Act relating to reserved forests shall apply to forests to which the provisions of sub-section (1) are applicable.

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Forest Act, 1963 Section 17

Title: Notification Declaring Forest a Reserved Forest

State: Karnataka

Year: 1963

.....events have occurred, namely: (a) the period fixed under section 5 for preferring claims has elapsed, and all claims, if any, made under that section or section 9 have been disposed of by the Forest Settlement Officer; (b) if any such claims have been made, the period limited by section 16 for appealing from the orders passed on such claims has elapsed and all appeals (if any) presented within such period have been disposed of; and (c) all proceedings prescribed by sections 11 and 14 have been taken and all lands and buildings (if any) to be included in the proposed reserved forest, which the Forest Settlement Officer has under section 11 elected to acquire under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, have become vested in the Government under section 16 of that Act, the State Government shall publish a notification specifying clearly according to the boundary marks erected or otherwise, the limits of the forest which is intended to constitute a reserved forest and declaring the same to be a reserved forest from the date fixed by such notification, subject to the exercise of rights (if any) specified in such notification. (2) From the date so fixed, such forest shall be.....

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Forest Act, 1963 Section 28

Title: Power to Declare Forests No Longer Reserved Forests

State: Karnataka

Year: 1963

(1) The State Government may, by notification, direct that, from a date to be specified in such notification, any forest or any portion thereof constituted as reserved forest under this Act, shall cease to be a reserved forest. 1[Provided that no such notification shall be issued unless a resolution to that effect has been passed by both Houses of the State Legislature.] 2[Provided further that no such resolution shall be necessary where the proposal relates to regularisation of unauthorised occupation of any reserved forest or portion thereof, if such occupation was prior to the date of commencement of the Karnataka Forest (Amendment) Act, 1978.] (2) From the date so specified such forest or portion shall cease to be a reserved forest but the rights, if any, which have been extinguished therein shall not revive in consequence of such cessation. ______________________ 1. Inserted by Act 23 of 1974 w.e.f. 16.9.1974. 2. Inserted by Act 15 of 1978 w.e.f. 27.4.1978.

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Forest Act, 1963 Section 64A

Title: Penalty for Unauthorisedly Taking Possession of Land Constituted as Reserved Forest,district Forest, Village Forest, Protected Forest and Any Other Land Under the Control of the Forest Department

State: Karnataka

Year: 1963

.....he shall be given a reasonable opportunity of being heard. (2) Any property forfeited under sub-section (1) shall be disposed of in such manner as the Forest Officer may direct and the cost of removal of any crop, building or other work and of all works necessary to restore the land to its original condition shall be recoverable from the person evicted in the manner provided in section 109. (3) Any person aggrieved by an order of the Forest Officer under sub-section (1) may, within such period and in such manner as may be prescribed, appeal against such order to the State Government or to such officer as may be authorised by the State Government in this behalf and the order of the Forest Officer shall, subject to the decision in such appeal, be final.]1 ______________________ 1. Inserted by Act 23 of 1974 w.e.f. 16.9.1974. 2. Inserted by Act 12 of 1998 w.e.f. 11.5.1998.

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Forest Act, 1963 Section 24

Title: Acts Prohibited in Reserved Forests

State: Karnataka

Year: 1963

.....lops, taps or burns any tree or strips off the bark or leaves from, or otherwise damages the same; (f) quarries stone, burns lime or charcoal, or collects, subjects to any manufacturing process, or removes, any forest produce; (g) clears or breaks up any land for cultivation or any other purpose; 1[(gg) unauthorisedly occupies land for any purpose;] (h) damages, alters or removes any cairn, wall, ditch, embankment, fence, hedge, or railing; (i) poisons or dynamites water; (j) in contravention2[of any law or rules, enters any reserved forest with fire arms or any other weapon meant for hunting], hunts, shoots, fishes or sets traps or snares, or who abets committing of any of the above prohibited acts shall, on conviction, be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to2[one year or with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees], or with both, and in addition be liable to pay such compensation for the damage done to the forests as the convicting court may direct to be paid. ______________________ 1. Inserted by Act 10 of 1989 w.e.f. 16.3.1989. 2. Substituted by Act 1 of 1981 w.e.f. 23.2.1981.

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Forest Act, 1963 Section 27

Title: Penalties for Offences Committed by Persons Having Rights in Reserved Forest

State: Karnataka

Year: 1963

Whenever fire is caused wilfully or by gross negligence in a reserved forest by a person having rights in such forest or by any person in his employment, or whenever any person having rights in such forest contravenes the provisions of section 21, the State Government may, without prejudice to any punishment under this Act, direct that in such forest, or any specified portion thereof, the exercise of all or any of the rights of pasture or to forest produce of any such person shall be extinguished, or for such period as it thinks fit, be suspended.

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Indian Forest Act, 1927 Section 3

Title: Power to Reserve Forests

State: Central

Year: 1927

The1[ State Government ] may constitute any forest-land or waste-land which is the property of Government, or over which the Government has proprietary rights, or to the whole or any part of the forest-produce of which the Government is entitled, a reserved forest in the manner hereinafter provided. ___________________ _ 1. Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for "Provincial Government".

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