Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Where any private forest is released from management by Government, the owner and any person interested in the private forest or in possession thereof be liable to pay to Government a sum equal to so much of the value of the private forest as is attributable to anything done on the improvement of the private forest for the purpose of enabling the forest to be properly farmed or of securing increased efficiency in the farming of the private forest. The Collector shall, by order, determine such sum which shall be payable by such owner or person within one month from the date of a demand made on writing by the Collector in this behalf. Provided that the owner or the person by whom any sum is so payable may by notice in writing served on the Collector within the said one month, elect to pay the said sum together with interest thereon from the said date at the rate of six per cent, per annum, by such number of equal annual instalments not exceeding ten as may be specified in the notice, the first instalment of which shall be paid within one year from the said date. Appeal