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Section 8Powers of Forest Settlement-officer.

The Indian Forest Act, 1927

For the purpose of such inquiry, the Forest Settlementofficer 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 make a map of the same; and

(b) the powers of a Civil Court in the trial of suits.