Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The Provincial Government may in-vest any Regional Forest-officer with all or any of the. following powers, that is to say:- (a) power to enter upon any land, or to authorise .any officer to enter thereon with servants and work- men, and to survey, demarcate .and male a map. of the same; · · (b) the powers of a Civil Court to compel the attendance · of witnesses and the production of documents and material objects; ' (c) power to issue a search-warrant under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898; and (d) power to hold an enquiry into forest-offences, and, in the course of such. enquiry, to receive and record evidence. (2) Any evidence recorded under clause (d) of sub-section · (1) shall be admissible in any subsequent trial before . a Magistrate, provided that it has been taken in the presence of the accused person.