1 An Act to consolidate the law relating to forests, the transit of forest-produce 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:-
CONTENTS
SECTIONS
CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY
1. Short title and extent
2. Interpretation clause
CHAPTER II OF RESERVED FORESTS
3. Power to reserve forests
4. Notification by Government
5. Bar of accrual of forest rights
6. Proclamation by Forest Settlement officer
7. Inquiry by Forest Settlement officer
8. Powers of Forest Settlement-officer
9. Extinction of rights
10. Treatment of claims relating to practice of shifting cultivation
11. Power to acquire land over which right is claimed
12. Order on claims to rights of pasture or to forest-produce
13. Record to be made by Forest Settlement-officer
14. Record where the admits claim
15. Exercise of rights admitted
16. Commutation of rights
16A. Time limit for resolution of claims
17. Appeal from order passed under section 11, section 12, section 15 or section 16
18. Appeal under section 17
19. Pleaders
20. Notification declaring forest reserved
21. Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood of forest
22. Power to revise arrangement made under section 15 or section 18
23. No right acquired over reserved forest, except as here provided
24. Rights not to be alienated without sanction
25. Power to stop ways and water-courses in reserved forests
26. Acts prohibited in such forests
27. Power to declare forest no longer reserved
CHAPTER III OF VILLAGE-FORESTS AND SOCIAL FORESTRY
28. Formation of village forests
28A. Social Forestry
28B. Effect of other of law on social forestry
CHAPTER IV OF PROTECTED FORESTS
29. Protected forests
30. Power to issue notification reserving trees, etc.
31. Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood
32. Power to make rules for protected forests
33. Penalties for acts in contravention of [section 28A or of] notification under section 30 or of rules under section 32
34. Nothing in this Chapter to prohibit acts done in certain cases
CHAPTER V OF THE CONTROL OVER FORESTS AND LANDS NOT BEING THE PROPERTY OF GOVERNMENT
35. [Repealed]
36. [Repealed]
37. [Repealed]
38. [Repealed]
38A. Operation of the Privet Forest Ordinance
38B. Notice of forest management activities
38C. Restricted activities
38D. Abetment of forest nuisances
CHAPTER VI OF THE DUTY ON TIMBER AND OTHER FOREST-PRODUCE
39. Power to impose duty on timber and other forest produce
40. Limit not apply to purchase money for royalty
CHAPTER VII OF THE CONTROL OF TIMBER AND OTHER FOREST-PRODUCE IN TRANSIT
41. Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest-produce
41A. [Omitted ]
42. Penalty for breach of rules made under section 41
43. Government and Forest-officers not liable for damage to forest-produce at depot
44. All persons bound to aid in case of accident at depot
CHAPTER VIII OF THE COLLECTION OF DRIFT AND STRANDED TIMBER
45. Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of Government until title thereto proved, and may be collected accordingly
46. Notice to claimants of drift timber
47. Procedure on claim preferred to such timber
48. Disposal of unclaimed timber
49. Government and its officers not liable for damage to such timber
50. Payments to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to- him
51. Power to make rule and prescribe penalties
CHAPTER IX PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE
52. Seizure of property liable to confiscation
53. Power to release property seized under section 52
54. Procedure thereupon
55. Forest produce, tools, etc. when liable to confiscation
56. Disposal on conclusion of trial for forest-offence of produce in respect which it was committed
57. Procedure when offender not known, or cannot be found
58. Procedure as to perishable property seized under section 52
59. Appeal from orders under section 55, section 56, or section 57
60. Property when to vest in Government
61. Saving of power to release property seized
62. Punishment for wrongful seizure
63. Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary marks
63A. Some offence to be non-bailable
64. Power to arrest without warrant
65. Power to release on a bond a person arrested
66. Power to prevent commission of offence
67. Power to try offences summarily
67A. Appointment of forest Magistrate
68. Power to compound offences
69. Presumption that forest produce belongs to Government
69A. Prosecution of forest-offences
CHAPTER X CATTLE-TRESPASS
70. Cattle-tress-pass Act, 1871, to apply
71. Power to alter fines fixed under that Act
CHAPTER XI OF FORESTS OFFICERS
72. Government may invest Forest-Officers with certain powers
73. Forest-officers deemed public servants
74. Indemnity for acts done in good faith
75. Forest-officers not to trade
CHAPTER XII SUBSIDIARY RULES
76. Additional powers to make rules
77. Penalties for breach of rules
78. Rules when to have force of law
CHAPTER XIII MISCELLANEOUS
79. Persons bound to assist Forest-officers and Police-officers
80. Management of forests the joint property of Government and other persons
81. Failure to perform service for which a share in produce of Government forest is enjoyed
82. Recovery of money due to Government
83. Lien on forest-produce for such money
84. Land required under this Act to be deemed to be needed for a public purpose under the Acquisition and Requisition of Immovable Property Ordinance, 1982
