(1) This Act may be called the Gujarat Private Forests (Acquisition) Act, 1972.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Gujarat.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
(a) "appointed day" means the date on which this Act comes into force;
(b) "Code" means the Bombay Land Revenue Code, 1879;
(c) "Collector" includes an officer not below the rank of a Deputy Collector appointed by the State Government to exercise the powers and perform the duties of the Collector under this Act;
(d) "Forest Act" means the Indian Forest Act, 1927 in its application to the State of Gujarat;
(e) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(f) "private forest" means any forest which is not the property of Government, and includes-
(i) any land declared before the appointed day to be a forest under section 34A of the Forest Act;
(ii) any forest in respect of which any notification issued under section 35 of the Forest Act, is in force immediately before the appointed day;
(iii) where in a forest, forest-land vests in any person other than the State Government and trees vest in the State Government, such forest-land;
(iv) sites of dwelling houses constructed in such forest which are considered to be necessary for the convenient enjoyment or use of the forest and lands appurtenant thereto;
(v) in a case where the State Government and any other person are jointly interested in a forest, the interest of such person in such forest;
(g) "Schedule" means the Schedule appended to this Act;
(h) "Tribunal" means the Gujarat Revenue Tribunal constituted under the Bombay Short title, extent and commencement.
Definitions.
Bom. V of 1879.
XVI of 1927.
Bom. XXXI of
1958.
Revenue Tribunal Act, 1957;
(i) words and expressions used but not defined in this Act shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Code or, as the case may be, in the Forest Act.