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THE FOREST ACT, 1927
(Act XVI of 1927)
[21st September 1927]
An Act to consolidate the law relating to forests, the transit of forestproduce
and the duty leviable on timber and other forest-produce.
WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate the law relating to forests, the
transit of forest-produce and the duty leviable on timber and other
forest-produce; it is hereby enacted as follows: -
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
1. Short title and extent
.-(l) This Act may be called the 2[ ]Forest Act,
1927.
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[(2) It extends to the whole of Bangladesh].
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For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Gazette of India, 1926, Pt,
V, p, 165 and for Report of Select Committee, see ibid., p. 242
This Act has been applied to Chittagong Hill-tracts with effect from the
2151 September, 1927, see Ben. Reg. V of 1942,
This Act and all the rules framed thereunder have been applied to the
district of Sylhet (with effect from the 291h March, 1950), see the Forest
(Extension to Sylhet) Act, 1950 (Ben. Act II of 1950).
The Act has been Repealed in part in its application to East Bengal, see
the Bengal Private Forests Act, 1945 (Ben. Act II of 1945) as re-enacted
in the East Bengal Laws (Amendment and Repeal) Act, 1949 (E.B. Act V
of 1950).
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The word "Indian" omitted by A.G. 1949.
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Sub-section (2) was substituted for the original sub-section (2) by Act,
VIII of 1973, s. 3 & 2nd Sch., as amended by Act LIII of 1974 (with
effect from the 26th March, 1971).
