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Indian Forest Act, 1927 |
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Preamble |
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CHAPTER I: PRELIMINARY |
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Short title and extent |
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Interpretation clause |
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CHAPTER II: OF RESERVED FORESTS |
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Power to reserve forests |
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Notification by State Government |
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Bar of accrual of forest-rights |
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Proclamation by Forest Settlement-officer |
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Inquiry by Forest Settlement-officer |
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Powers of Forest Settlement-officers |
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Extinction of rights |
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Treatment of claims relating to practice of shifting cultivation |
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Power to acquire land over which right is claimed |
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Order on claims to rights of pasture or to forest-produce |
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Record to be made by Forest Settlement-officer |
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Record where he admits claim |
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Exercise of rights admitted |
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Commutation of rights |
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Appeal from order passed under section 11, section 12, section 15 or section 16 |
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Appeal under section 17 |
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Pleaders |
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Notification declaring forest reserved |
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Publication of translation of such notification in neighborhood of forest |
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Power to revise arrangement made under section 15 or section 18 |
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No right acquired over reserved forest, except as here provided |
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Rights not to be alienated without sanction |
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Power to stop ways and water-courses in reserved forests |
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Acts prohibited in such forests |
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Power to declare forest no longer reserved |
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CHAPTER III : OF VILLAGE-FORESTS |
| 28. |
Formation of village-forests |
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CHAPTER IV : OF PROTECTED FORESTS |
| 29. |
Protected forests |
| 30. |
Power to issue notification reserving trees, etc. |
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Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood |
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Power to make rules for protected forests |
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Penalties for acts in contravention of notification under section 30 or of rules under section 32 |
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Nothing in this Chapter to prohibit acts done in certain cases |
| 35. |
Saving for use of name, address or description of goods or services |
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CHAPTER V : OF THE CONTROL OVER FOREST AND LANDS NOT BEING THE PROPERTY OF GOVERNMENT |
| 36. |
Power to assume management of forests |
| 37. |
Expropriation of forests in certain cases |
| 38. |
Protection of forests at request of owners |
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CHAPTER VI : OF THE DUTY ON TIMBER AND OTHER FOREST-PRODUCE |
| 39. |
Power to impose duty on timber and other forest-produce |
| 40. |
Limit not to apply to purchase-money or royalty |
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CHAPTER VII : OF THE CONTROL OF TIMBER AND OTHER FOREST-PRODUCE IN TRANSIT |
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Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest produce |
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Penalty for breach of rules made under section 41 |
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Government and Forest-officers not liable for damage to forest-produce at depot |
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All persons bound to aid in case of accidents at depot |
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CHAPTER VIII : OF THE COLLECTION OF DRIFT AND STRANDED TIMBER |
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Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of Government until title thereto proved, and may be collected accordingly |
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Notice to claimants of drift timber |
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Procedure on claim preferred to such timber |
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Disposal of unclaimed timber |
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Government and its officers not liable for damage to such timber |
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Payments to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him |
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Power to make rules and prescribe penalties |
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CHAPTER IX : PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE |
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Seizure of property liable to confiscation |
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Power to release property seized under section 52 |
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Procedure thereupon |
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Forest-produce, tools, etc., when liable to confiscation |
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Disposal on conclusion of trial for forest-offence, of produce in respect of which it was committed |
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Procedure when offender not known or cannot be found |
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Procedure as to perishable property siezed under section 52 |
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Appeal from orders under section 55, section 56 or section 57 |
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Property when to vest in Government |
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Saving of power to release property seized |
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Punishment for wrongful seizure |
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Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary marks |
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Power to arrest without warrant |
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Power to release on a bond a person arrested |
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Power to prevent commission of offence |
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Power to try offences summarily |
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Power to compound offences |
| 69. |
Presumption that forest-produce belongs to Government |
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CHAPTER X : CATTLE-TRESPASS |
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Cattle-trespass Act, 1871, to apply |
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Power to alter fines fixed under that Act |
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CHAPTER XI : OF FOREST-OFFICERS |
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State Government may invest Forest-officers with certain powers |
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Forest officers deemed public servants |
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Indemnity for acts done in good faith |
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Forest-officers not to trade |
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CHAPTER XII : SUBSIDIARY RULES |
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Additional powers to make rules |
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Penalties for breach of rules |
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Rules when to have force of law |
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CHAPTER XIII : MISCELLANEOUS |
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Persons bound to assist Forest-officers and Police-officers |
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Management of forests the joint property of Government and other persons |
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Failure to perform service for which a share in produce of Government forest is employed |
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Recovery of money due to Government |
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Lien on forest-produce for such money |
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Land required under this Act to be deemed to be needed for a public purpose under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 |
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Recovery of penalties due under bond |
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Saving for rights of Central Government |
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Repeals |
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