Orissa Forest Act, 1972

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S.1 Short title, extent and commencement

S.2 Definitions

S.3 Power to reserve forests

S.4 Notification by State Government

S.5 Bar to accrual of forest rights and bar of suits

S.6 Proclamation by Forest Settlement Officer

S.7 Inquiry by the Forest Settlement Officer

S.8 Powers of Forest Settlement Officer

S.9 Extinction of rights

S.10 Claims relating to practice of shifting cultivation

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

S.12 Claims to right of way, right to water-course or to use of water etc.

S.13 Record to be made by the Forest Settlement Officer

S.14 Record where he admits claims

S.15 Exercise of rights admitted

S.16 Commutation of rights

S.17 Appeal from orders passed under Sections 11,12, 15 or 16

S.18 Appeal under Section 17

S.19 Power of revision

S.20 Pleaders

S.21 Notifications declaring forest reserved

S.22 Publication of translation of such Notification in neighbourhood of forests

S.23 Power to revise arrangement made under Section 15 or Section 18

S.24 No right to be acquired over reserved forest except as herein provided

S.25 Rights not to alienated without sanction

S.26 Power of stop ways and water-courses in reserved forests

S.27 Offences

S.28 Suspension of rights in reserved forest

S.29 Power to declare forest no longer reserved

S.30 Constitution of village forests

S.31 Power to make rules for village forests

S.32 Inquiry into and settlement of rights

S.33 Protected forests

S.34 Power to issue notification reserving trees, etc.

S.35 Publication or translation of such notification in neighbourhood

S.36 Powers to make rules for protected forests

S.37 Penalties for acts in contravention of notification under Section 34 or of rules under Section 36

S.38 Nothing in this Chapter to prohibit acts done in certain cases

S.39 Protection of forests for special purposes

S.40 Power to assume management of forests

S.41 Acquisition of forests in certain cases

S.42 Prohibition of cutting fruit-bearing trees

S.43 Protection of forests at request of owners

S.44 Management of forests, the joint-property of Government and other persons

S.45 Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest produce

S.46 Penalty for breach of rules made under Section 45

S.47 Government and Forest Officers not liable for damage to forest produce at depot

S.48 All persons bound to aid in case of accident at depot

S.49 Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of Government until title thereto is proved and may be collected accordingly

S.50 Notice to claimants of drift timber

S.51 Procedure on claim preferred to such timber

S.52 Disposal of unclaimed timber

S.53 Government and its officers not liable for damage to such timber

S.54 Payments to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him

S.55 Power to make rules and prescribe penalties

S.55(a) Sandal-trees to be exclusive property of State Government

S.55(b) Disposal of sandal wood belonging to private persons

S.55(c) Regulation, sale and manufacture of sandal wood and sandal wood-oil

S.55(d) Responsibility of occupants and holders of land for preservation of sandal trees

S.55(e) Penalty for offence in regard to sandalwood

S.55(aa) Minimum punishment to be imposed

S.56 Seizure of property liable to confiscation

S.57 .

S.58 Action after seizure

S.59 Forest produce, tools etc., liable to confiscation

S.60 Disposal on conclusion of trial for forest offence of produce in respect of which it was committed

S.61 Procedure when offender not known, or cannot be found

S.62 Procedure as to perishable property seized under Section 56

S.63 Appeal from orders under Section 59, 60 or 61

S.64 Property when to vest in Government

S.64(a) Confiscation to be no bar to imposition of other penalty

S.65 Saving of power to release property seized

S.66 Punishment for wrongful seizure

S.67 Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary marks

S.68 Powers to arrest without warrant

S.69 Power to release on a bond a person arrested

S.70 Power to prevent commission of offences

S.71 Power to try offences summarily

S.72 Power to compound offences

S.73 Presumption that forest produce belongs to Government