The Indian Forest Act, 1927
Central · 1927
- S. 1Short title and extent.
- S. 2Interpretation clause.
- S. 3Power to reserve forests.
- S. 4Notification by State Government.
- S. 5Bar of accrual of forest-rights.
- S. 6Proclamation by Forest Settlement-officer.
- S. 7Inquiry by Forest Settlement-officer.
- S. 8Powers of Forest Settlement-officer.
- 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. 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 water-courses 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. 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. 43Governments 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 accordingly.
- 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.
- S. 53Power to release property seized under section 52.
- S. 54Procedure thereupon.
- S. 55Forest-produce, tools, etc., when liable to confiscation.
- 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 Government.
- S. 61Saving of power to release property seized.
- S. 62Punishment for wrongful seizure.
- S. 63Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary-marks.
- S. 64Power to arrest without warrant.
- S. 65Power to release on a bond a person arrested.
- S. 66Power to prevent commission of offence.
- S. 67Power to try offences summarily.
- S. 68Power to compound offences and impose penalties.
- S. 69Presumption that forest-produce belongs to Government.
- S. 70Cattle-trespass Act, 1871, to apply.
- S. 71Power to alter fines fixed under that Act.
- S. 72State Government 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. 77Penalties for breach of rules.
- S. 78Rules when to have force of law.
- S. 79Persons bound to assist Forest-officers and police-officers.
- S. 80Management of forests the joint property of Government and other persons.
- S. 81Failure to perform service for which a share in produce of Government forest is enjoyed.
- S. 82Recovery of money due to Government.
- S. 83Lien on forest-produce for such money.
- S. 84Land required under this Act to be deemed to be needed for a public purpose under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894.
- S. 85Recovery of penalties due under bond.
- S. 85ASaving for rights of Central Government.
- S. 86[Repealed.].