The INDIAN FOREST ACT, 1927
chandigarh · 1927
- S. 1—
- S. 2Subs
- S. 3Subs
- S. 4Notification by 1[State Government]
- S. 5Subs
- S. 6Proclamation by Forest Settlement-officer
- S. 7Subs
- S. 8Subs
- S. 9Extinction of rights
- S. 10Treatment of claims relating to practice of shifting cultivation
- S. 11Power to acquire land over which right is claimed
- S. 12Order on claims to rights of pasture or to forest produce
- S. 13Record to be made by Forest Settlement-officer
- S. 14Record where he admits claim
- S. 15Exercise of rights admitted
- S. 16Commutation of rights
- S. 17Appeal from order passed under section 11, section 12, section 15 or section 16
- S. 18Appeal under section 17
- S. 19Pleaders
- S. 20Notification declaring forest reserved
- S. 20ADemarcated forests deemed to be reserved forests
- S. 21Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood of forest
- S. 22Power to revise arrangement made under section 15 or section 18
- S. 23No right acquired over reserved forest, except as here provided
- S. 24Rights not to be alienated without sanction
- S. 25Power to stop ways and watercourses in reserved forests
- S. 26Acts prohibited in such forests
- S. 27Power to declare forest no longer reserved
- S. 28Formation of village-forests
- S. 29Protected forests
- S. 29AUndemarcated forests deemed to be protected forests
- S. 30Power to issue notification reserving trees, etc
- S. 31Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood
- S. 32Power to make rules for protected forests
- S. 33Penalties for acts in contravention of notification under section 30 or of rules under section 32
- S. 34Nothing in this Chapter to prohibit acts done in certain cases
- S. 35Protection of forests for special purposes
- S. 36Power to assume management of forests
- S. 37Expropriation of forests in certain cases
- S. 38Protection of forests at request of owners
- S. 39Power to impose duty on timber and other forest-produce
- S. 40Limit not to apply to purchase money or royalty
- S. 41Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest produce
- S. 41APowers of Central Government as to movements of timber across customs frontiers
- S. 42Penalty for breach of rules made under section 41
- S. 43Government and Forest-officers not liable for damage to forest-produce at depot
- S. 44All persons bound to aid in case of accident at depot
- S. 45Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of Government until title thereto proved, and may be collected accordingl
- S. 46Notice to claimants of drift timber
- S. 47Procedure on claim preferred to such timber
- S. 48Disposal of unclaimed timber
- S. 49Government and its officers not liable for damage to such timber
- S. 50Payments to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him
- S. 51Power to make rules and prescribe penalties
- S. 52Seizure of property liable to confiscation and procedure thereof
- S. 52ARevision before Court of Sessions against order of confiscation
- S. 52BBar to jurisdiction of Courts etc
- S. 52CPower of search and seizure
- S. 52DPenalty for forcibly opposing seizure
- S. 53Power to release property seized under section 52
- S. 54Procedure thereupon
- S. 55Forest-produce, tools, etc
- S. 56Disposal on conclusion of trial for forest-offence, of produce in respect of which it was committed
- S. 57Procedure when offender not known or cannot be found
- S. 58Procedure as to perishable property seized under section 52
- S. 59Appeal from orders under section 55, section 56 or section 57
- S. 60Property when to vest in 1 [Government]
- S. 61Saving of power to release property seized
- S. 61FProperty etc
- S. 62Punishment for wrongful seizure
- S. 63—
- S. 64Power to arrest without warrant
- S. 64AOffences non-bailable
- S. 65Power to release on a bond a person arrested
- S. 65ARequisition for police assistance
- S. 65BPolice officers bound to seek technical clearance from Authorized Officer
- S. 66Power to prevent commission of offence
- S. 66APunishment for abetment
- S. 67Power to try offences summarily
- S. 68Power to compound offences
- S. 69Presumption that forest-produce belongs to 1[Government]
- S. 70Cattle-trespass Act, 1871, to apply
- S. 71Power to alter fines fixed under that Act
- S. 72Government of Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir may invest Forest officers with certain powers
- S. 73Forest-officers deemed public servants
- S. 74Indemnity for acts done in good faith
- S. 75Forest-officers not to trade
- S. 76Additional powers to make rules
- S. 76APower to regulate manufacture and preparation of articles based on forest produce
- S. 77Penalties for breach of rules
- S. 78Rules when to have force of law
- S. 79Persons bound to assist Forest-officers and Police-officers
- S. 79BSummary action by Deputy Commissioner in fire cases
- S. 79CAppeal against order of Deputy Commissioner
- S. 80Management of forests the joint property of 1[Government] and other persons
- S. 81Failure to perform service for which a share in produce of 1[Government] forest is employed
- S. 82Recovery of money due to Government
- S. 83Lien on forest-produce for such money
- S. 83ARestriction on alienation
- S. 84Land required under this Act to be deemed to be needed for a public purpose under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894
- S. 84AApplication of the Act to land
- S. 85Recovery of penalties due under bond
- S. 85ASaving for rights of Central Government
- S. 86[Repealed
- S. 1972[Vide the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020, notification No