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(1) If the owner of a vested forest satisfies the Appellate Committee- a aa R, ue after the expiry of fifteen years from the date of the notification by which the control of such forest has 'been yested in a Regional Forest- officer, that- ' ~ (i) the control of such forest may be restored to him without undue risk of detriment to its con- servation, and (ii) the cost of its ,anagement, a#determined under the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 1G has been recovered in full, or ' (5} The Provincial Government'may, by general or special order, exempt any private forest in a notified area from the payment of any cess imposed under sub-section (l'j or of any portion of such cess for such period as may be specified in such order. · The West Bengal Prate Forests Act, 1948. 15 XIV of 1948.] (Chapter II.Conservation of Private Forests and Afforest- ation of Waste-lands.Chapter III.Raglts n Forests. -Section 19.) at any time after the expiry of thirty years from the date of such notification, that the cost of management of such forest as determined under the provisions of that sub-section has been recovered, the .Appellate Committee shall by order direct that with effect from a date, to be specified in such order, the control of such forest shall cease to be vested in the Regional Forest- officer: Provided that no such order shall be made in the case 'of any forest, whether any working plan in respect of such forest has been previoli.sly approved under section 4 or not, until- (a) the Appellate Committee has iby an order called upon the owner of such forest to prepare in the pres- cribed manner and to submit within such period as may be specified in such order to the Regional Forest-officer a working plan in respect of such forest, and (b) a working plan has been approved in respect of such forest in accordance with the provisions referred to in sub-section (2}: Provided further that no such order shall be passed regarding a forest in respect of which there subsists an order passed under sub-section (Z) of section 9, unless the owners of all the forests, in respect of which the order under the said sub-section was passed, have satisfied the Appellate Committee that there will be no undue risk of detriment to the conservation of any of such forests if the control of the said forest ceases to be vested in the Regional Forest-officer. (2) When the owner of a forest has been required under the first proviso to sub-section (1) to prepare and submit a working plan in respect of such forest, the provisions of sections 3 and 4 shall apply to such working plan as if such owner has been required to prepare such working plan under sub-section (1) 0£ section 3. (3) The fact that the control of any forest has ceased to be vested in a Regional Forest-officer shall not operate to revive any right which may have been extinguished or modified by a proclamation under section 28. CHAPTER III. RIGHTS IN FORESTS.