INDIAN FOREST ACT, 1927

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S.1 Short title and extent

S.2 Interpretation clause

S.2(a) Continuation of certain refers nodes to central or Bombay Acts

S.3 Power to reserve forests

S.4 Notification by State Government

S.5 Bar of accrual of forest rights

S.6 Proclamation by Forest Settlement Officer

S.7 Inquiry by Forest Settlement Officer

S.8 Powers of Forest Settlement Officer

S.9 Extinction of Rights

S.10 Treatment of claims relating to practice of shifting cultivation

S.11 Power to acquire land over which right is claimed

S.12 Order on claims to rights of pasture or to forest produce

S.13 Record to be made by Forest Settlement Officer

S.14 Record where he admits claim

S.15 Exercise of rights admitted

S.16 Commutation of rights

S.17 Appeal from order passed under section 11,section 12,section 15 or section 16

S.18 Appeal under section 17

S.19 Pleaders

S.20 Notification declaring Forest reserved

S.21 Publication of translation of such notifications in neighbourhood of forests

S.22 Power to revise arrangement made under section 15 or section 18

S.23 No right acquired over reserved forest, except as here provided

S.24 Rights not to be alienated without sanction

S.25 Power to stop ways and water-courses in reserved forests

S.26 Acts prohibited in such forests

S.27 Power to declare forest on longer reserved

S.28 Formation of village forest

S.29 Protected forest

S.30 Power to issue notification to serving trees, etc.

S.31 Publication of translation of such neighbourhood

S.32 Power to make rules for protected forest

S.33 Penalties for acts in contravention of notification under section 30 or of rules under section 32

S.34 Nothing in this Chapter to prohibit acts done in certain cases

S.34(a) Repealed

S.35 Repealed

S.36 Repealed

S.36(a) Repealed

S.36(b) Repealed

S.36(c) Repealed

S.37 Repealed

S.38 Protection of forests of request of owners

S.39 Power to impose duty on timber and other forest produce

S.40 Limit not to apply to purchase money or royalty

S.41 Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest-produce

S.41(a) Power of Central Government as to movements of timber across customs frontiers

S.42 Penalty for breach of rules made under section 41

S.43 Government and Forest-officers not liable for damage to forest-produce at depot

S.44 All persons bound to aid in case of accident at depot

S.45 Certain Kinds of timber to be deemed property of Government until title thereto proved, and may be collected accordingly

S.46 Notice to claimants of drift timber

S.47 Procedure on claim preferred to such timber

S.48 Disposal of unclaimed timber

S.49 Government its and officers not liable for damage to such timber

S.50 Payments be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him

S.51 Power to make rules and prescribe penalties

S.52 Seizure of property liable to confiscation

S.53 Power to release property seized under section 52

S.54 deleted

S.55 Forest-procedure, tools, etc. when liable to confiscation

S.56 Disposal, on conclusion of trial for forest-offence, of produce in respect of which it was committed

S.57 Procedure when offender not known, or cannot be found

S.58 Procedure as to perishable property seized under section 52

S.59 Appeal from orders under section 55, section 56 or section 57

S.60 Property when to vest in Government

S.61 Saving of power to release property seized

S.61(a) Confiscation by Forest Officers in certain in cases

S.61(b) Issue of show cause notice before confiscation under section 61 A

S.61(c) Revision

S.61(d) Appeal

S.61(e) Award of confiscation not to interfere with other punishment

S.61(f) Property confiscated when to vest in Government

S.61(g) Bar of jurisdiction in certain cases

S.62 Punishment for wrongful seizure

S.63 Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary-marks

S.64 Power to arrest without warrant

S.65 Power to release on a bond a person arrested

S.66 Power to prevent commission of offence

S.67 Power to try offences summarily