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The Indian Forest Act, 1927

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Act Details

Act Number:

Act Year:

1927

Location:

Uttar Pradesh

Enactment Date:

9/21/1927

Department:

Department of Environment,Forest & Climate Change

All Section List

PRELIMINARY

Section 1 to Section 2

Section 1

Short title and extent.

Section 2

Interpretation clause.

OF RESERVED FORESTS

Section 3 to Section 27

Section 3

Power to reserve forests.

Section 4

Notification by State Government.

Section 5

Bar of accrual of forest-rights.

Section 6

Proclamation by Forest Settlement-officer.

Section 7

Inquiry by Forest Settlement-officer.

Section 8

Powers of Forest Settlement-officer.

Section 9

Extinction of rights.

Section 10

Treatment of claims relating to practice of shifting cultivation.

Section 11

Power to acquire land over which right is claimed.

Section 12

Order on claims to rights of pasture or to forest-produce.

Section 13

Record to be made by Forest Settlement-officer.

Section 14

Record where he admits claim.

Section 15

Exercise of rights admitted.

Section 16

Commutation of rights.

Section 17

Appeal from order passed under section 11, section 12, section 15 or section 16.

Section 18

Appeal under section 17.

Section 19

Pleaders.

Section 20

Notification declaring forest reserved.

Section 21

Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood of forest.

Section 22

Power to revise arrangement made under section 15 or section 18.

Section 23

No right acquired over reserved forest, except as here provided.

Section 24

Rights not to be alienated without sanction.

Section 25

Power to stop ways and water-courses in reserved forests.

Section 26

Acts prohibited in such forests.

Section 27

Power to declare forest no longer reserved.

OF VILLAGE-FORESTS

Section 28

Formation of village-forests.

OF PROTECTED FORESTS

Section 29 to Section 34

Section 29

Protected forests.

Section 30

Power to issue notification reserving trees, etc.

Section 31

Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood.

Section 32

Power to make rules for protected forests.

Section 33

Penalties for acts in contravention of notification under section 30 or of rules under section 32.

Section 34

Nothing in this Chapter to prohibit acts done in certain cases.

OF THE CONTROL OVER FORESTSAND LANDSNOTBEINGTHE PROPERTY OF GOVERNMENT

Section 35 to Section 38

Section 35

Protection of forests for special purposes.

Section 36

Power to assume management of forests.

Section 37

Expropriation of forests in certain cases.

Section 38

Protection of forests at request of owners.

OFTHE DUTY ON TIMBERAND OTHER FOREST-PRODUCE

Section 39 to Section 40

Section 39

Power to impose duty on timber and other forest-produce.

Section 40

Limit not to apply to purchase-money or royalty.

OFTHE CONTROLOF TIMBERANDOTHERFOREST-PRODUCE IN TRANSIT

Section 41 to Section 44

Section 41

Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest-produce.

Section 41A

Powers of Central Government as to movements of timber across customs frontiers.

Section 42

Penalty for breach of rules made under section 41.

Section 43

Governments and Forest-officers not liable for damage to forest-produce at depot.

Section 44

All persons bound to aid in case of accident at depot.

OF THE COLLECTIONOF DRIFTAND STRANDED TIMBER

Section 45 to Section 51

Section 45

Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of Government until title thereto proved, and may be collected accordingly.

Section 46

Notice to claimants of drift-timber.

Section 47

Procedure on claim preferred to such timber.

Section 48

Disposal of unclaimed timber.

Section 49

Government and its officers not liable for damage to such timber.

Section 50

Payments to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him.

Section 51

Power to make rules and prescribe penalties.

PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE

Section 52 to Section 69

Section 52

Seizure of property liable to confiscation.

Section 53

Power to release property seized under section 52.

Section 54

Procedure thereupon.

Section 55

Forest-produce, tools, etc., when liable to confiscation.

Section 56

Disposal, on conclusion of trial for forest-offence, of produce in respect of which it was committed.

Section 57

Procedure when offender not known, or cannot be found.

Section 58

Procedure as to perishable property seized under section 52.

Section 59

Appeal from orders under section .55, section 56 or section 57.

Section 60

Property when to vest in Government.

Section 61

Saving of power to release property seized.

Section 62

Punishment for wrongful seizure.

Section 63

Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary-marks.

Section 64

Power to arrest without warrant.

Section 65

Power to release on a bond a person arrested.

Section 66

Power to prevent commission of offence.

Section 67

Power to try offences summarily.

Section 68

Power to compound offences and impose penalties.

Section 69

Presumption that forest-produce belongs to Government.

CATTLE-TRESPASS

Section 70 to Section 71

Section 70

Cattle-trespass Act, 1871, to apply.

Section 71

Power to alter fines fixed under that Act.

OF FOREST-OFFICERS

Section 72 to Section 75

Section 72

State Government may invest Forest-officers with certain powers.

Section 73

Forest-officers deemed public servants.

Section 74

Indemnity for acts done in good faith.

Section 75

Forest-officers not to trade.

SUBSIDIARY RULES

Section 76 to Section 78

Section 76

Additional powers to make rules.

Section 77

Penalties for breach of rules.

Section 78

Rules when to have force of law.

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 79 to Section 86

Section 79

Persons bound to assist Forest-officers and police-officers.

Section 80

Management of forests the joint property of Government and other persons.

Section 81

Failure to perform service for which a share in produce of Government forest is enjoyed.

Section 82

Recovery of money due to Government.

Section 83

Lien on forest-produce for such money.

Section 84

Land required under this Act to be deemed to be needed for a public purpose under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894.

Section 85

Recovery of penalties due under bond.

Section 85A

Saving for rights of Central Government.

Section 86

[Repealed.].