Indian Forest Act, 1878

Forest Act, 1878

Act 7 of 1878

An Act to amend the law relating to forests, the transit of forest-produce, and the duty leviable on timber. WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the law relating to forests, the transit of forest-produce and the duty leviable on timber; It is hereby enacted as follows:--

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S.2 Interpretation-clause.--

S.3 Power to reserve forests.--

S.4 Notification by Local Government.--

S.5 Bar of accrual of forest-rights.--

S.6 Proclamation toy Forest-Settlement officer.--

S.7 Enquiry by Forest-Settlement-officer.--

S.8 Powers of Forest-Settlement-officer.--

S.10 Power to acquire land over, which right is claimed.--

S.11 Order on claims to rights of pasture or to forest-produce.--

S.12 Record to be made by Forest-Settlement-officer.--

S.13 Record where he admits claim.--

S.14 Exercise of rights admitted.--

S.15 Commutation of rights.--

S.16 Appeal from order passed under Section 10, 11, 14 or 15.--

S.17 Appeal under Section 16.--

S.18 Pleaders.--

S.19 Notification declaring forest reserved.--

S.20 Publication of translation of such, notification in neighbourhood of forest.--

S.21 Power to revise arrangement made under Section 14 or 17.--

S.22 No right acquired over reserved forest, except as here provided.--

S.23 Rights not to be alienated without sanction.--

S.24 Power to stop ways and water-courses in reserved forests.--

S.25 Acts prohibited in such forests.--

S.26 Power to declare forest no longer reserved.--

S.27 Formation of village-forests.--

S.28 "Protected Forests.".--

S.29 Power to issue notification.--

S.30 Publication of translation of such notification in neighbour-hood. --

S.31 Power to make rules for protected forests.--

S.32 Penalties for acts in contravention of notification under Section 29.--

S.33 Nothing in this chapter to prohibit acts done in certain cases.--

S.34 Forests under Conservancy-administration when this Act comes into Force.--

S.35 Protection of forests for special purposes.--

S.36 Power to assume management of forests.--

S.37 Expropriation of forests in certain cases.--

S.38 Protection of forests at request of owners.--

S.39 Power to impose duty on timber.--

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

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

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 and its officers not liable for damage to such timber.--

S.50 Payments to 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 Procedure thereupon.--

S.54 Forest-produce, tools, &c., when. liable to confiscation.--

S.55 Disposal, on conclusion of trial for forest-offence, of produce in respect of which it was committed.--

S.56 Procedure when offender not known, or cannot be found.--

S.57 Procedure as to perishable property seized under Section 52.--

S.58 Appeal from orders under Sections 54, 55 and 56.--

S.59 Property when to vest in Government.--

S.60 Saving of power to re-lease property seized.--

S.61 Punishment for wrongful seizure.--

S.62 Penalty for counterfeiting or dafacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary-marks.--

S.63 Power to arrest without warrant.--

S.64 Power to prevent commission of offence.--

S.65 Power to try offences summarily.--

S.66 Operation of other laws not barred.--

S.67 Power to compound offences.--

S.68 Presumption that forest-produce belongs to Government.--

S.69 Cattle-trespass Act, 1871, to apply.--

S.70 Power to alter fines fixed by that Act.--

S.71 Local Government may invest Forest-officers with certain powers.--

S.72 Forest-officers deemed public servants.--

S.73 Indemnity for acts done in good faith.--

S.74 Forest-officers not to trade.--

S.75 Additional powers to make rules.--

S.76 Penalties for breach of rules.--

S.77 Rules when to have force of law.--

S.78 Persons hound to assist Forest-officer and Police-officers.--

S.79 Management of forests the joint property of Government and other persons.--

S.80 Failure to perform service for which a share in produce of Government forest is enjoyed.--

S.81 Recovery of money due to Government.--

S.82 Lien on forest-produce for such money.--

S.83 Land required under this Act to be deemed to be needed for a public purpose under Land Acquisition Act.--

S.1 S.9 Extinction of rights.--

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