Sections | Indian Forest Act, 1927 |
| Preamble |
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| CHAPTER I: PRELIMINARY |
1. | Short title and extent |
2. | Interpretation clause |
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| CHAPTER II: OF RESERVED FORESTS |
3. | Power to reserve forests |
4. | Notification by State Government |
5. | Bar of accrual of forest-rights |
6. | Proclamation by Forest Settlement-officer |
7. | Inquiry by Forest Settlement-officer |
8. | Powers of Forest Settlement-officers |
9. | Extinction of rights |
10. | Treatment of claims relating to practice of shifting cultivation |
11. | Power to acquire land over which right is claimed |
12. | Order on claims to rights of pasture or to forest-produce |
13. | Record to be made by Forest Settlement-officer |
14. | Record where he admits claim |
15. | Exercise of rights admitted |
16. | Commutation of rights |
17. | Appeal from order passed under section 11, section 12, section 15 or section 16 |
18. | Appeal under section 17 |
19. | Pleaders |
20. | Notification declaring forest reserved |
21. | Publication of translation of such notification in neighborhood of forest |
22. | Power to revise arrangement made under section 15 or section 18 |
23. | No right acquired over reserved forest, except as here provided |
24. | Rights not to be alienated without sanction |
25. | Power to stop ways and water-courses in reserved forests |
26. | Acts prohibited in such forests |
27. | 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. |
31. | Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood |
32. | Power to make rules for protected forests |
33. | Penalties for acts in contravention of notification under section 30 or of rules under section 32 |
34. | 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 |
41. | Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest produce |
42. | Penalty for breach of rules made under section 41 |
43. | Government and Forest-officers not liable for damage to forest-produce at depot |
44. | 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 |
45. | Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of Government until title thereto proved, and may be collected accordingly |
46. | Notice to claimants of drift timber |
47. | Procedure on claim preferred to such timber |
48. | Disposal of unclaimed timber |
49. | Government and its officers not liable for damage to such timber |
50. | Payments to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him |
51. | Power to make rules and prescribe penalties |
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| CHAPTER IX : PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE |
52. | Seizure of property liable to confiscation |
53. | Power to release property seized under section 52 |
54. | Procedure thereupon |
55. | Forest-produce, tools, etc., when liable to confiscation |
56. | Disposal on conclusion of trial for forest-offence, of produce in respect of which it was committed |
57. | Procedure when offender not known or cannot be found |
58. | Procedure as to perishable property siezed under section 52 |
59. | Appeal from orders under section 55, section 56 or section 57 |
60. | Property when to vest in Government |
61. | Saving of power to release property seized |
62. | Punishment for wrongful seizure |
63. | Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary marks |
64. | Power to arrest without warrant |
65. | Power to release on a bond a person arrested |
66. | Power to prevent commission of offence |
67. | Power to try offences summarily |
68. | Power to compound offences |
69. | Presumption that forest-produce belongs to Government |
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| CHAPTER X : CATTLE-TRESPASS |
70. | Cattle-trespass Act, 1871, to apply |
71. | Power to alter fines fixed under that Act |
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| CHAPTER XI : OF FOREST-OFFICERS |
72. | State Government may invest Forest-officers with certain powers |
73. | Forest officers deemed public servants |
74. | Indemnity for acts done in good faith |
75. | Forest-officers not to trade |
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| CHAPTER XII : SUBSIDIARY RULES |
76. | Additional powers to make rules |
77. | Penalties for breach of rules |
78. | Rules when to have force of law |
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| CHAPTER XIII : MISCELLANEOUS |
79. | Persons bound to assist Forest-officers and Police-officers |
80. | Management of forests the joint property of Government and other persons |
81. | Failure to perform service for which a share in produce of Government forest is employed |
82. | Recovery of money due to Government |
83. | Lien on forest-produce for such money |
84. | Land required under this Act to be deemed to be needed for a public purpose under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 |
85. | Recovery of penalties due under bond |
85A. | Saving for rights of Central Government |
86. | Repeals |
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