The Indian Forest Act, 1927

Central Act · Act 16 of 192787 provisions37 citing judgments

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• Section 1 Short title and extent.
• Section 2 Interpretation clause.4 citing judgments
• Section 3 Power to reserve forests.
• Section 4 Notification by State Government.5 citing judgments
• Section 5 Bar of accrual of forest-rights.
• Section 6 Proclamation by Forest Settlement-officer.
• Section 7 Inquiry by Forest Settlement-officer.
• Section 8 Powers of Forest Settlement-officer.
• Section 9 Extinction of rights.
• Section 10 Treatment of claims relating to practice of shifting cultivation.
• Section 11 Power to acquire land over which right is claimed.
• Section 12 Order on claims to rights of pasture or to forest-produce.
• Section 13 Record to be made by Forest Settlement-officer.
• Section 14 Record where he admits claim.
• Section 15 Exercise of rights admitted.
• Section 16 Commutation of rights.
• Section 17 Appeal from order passed under section 11, section 12, section 15 or section 16.1 citing judgment
• Section 18 Appeal under section 17.
• Section 19 Pleaders.
• Section 20 Notification declaring forest reserved.4 citing judgments
• Section 21 Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood of forest.
• Section 22 Power to revise arrangement made under section 15 or section 18.
• Section 23 No right acquired over reserved forest, except as here provided.
• Section 24 Rights not to be alienated without sanction.
• Section 25 Power to stop ways and water-courses in reserved forests.
• Section 26 Acts prohibited in such forests.2 citing judgments
• Section 27 Power to declare forest no longer reserved.
• Section 28 Formation of village-forests.
• Section 29 Protected forests.
• Section 30 Power to issue notification reserving trees, etc.
• Section 31 Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood.
• Section 32 Power to make rules for protected forests.1 citing judgment
• Section 33 Penalties for acts in contravention of notification under section 30 or of rules under section 32.3 citing judgments
• Section 34 Nothing in this Chapter to prohibit acts done in certain cases.
• Section 35 Protection of forests for special purposes.1 citing judgment
• Section 36 Power to assume management of forests.1 citing judgment
• Section 37 Expropriation of forests in certain cases.1 citing judgment
• Section 38 Protection of forests at request of owners.
• Section 39 Power to impose duty on timber and other forest-produce.
• Section 40 Limit not to apply to purchase-money or royalty.
• Section 41 Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest-produce.4 citing judgments
• Section 41A Powers of Central Government as to movements of timber across customs frontiers.
• Section 42 Penalty for breach of rules made under section 41.3 citing judgments
• Section 43 Governments and Forest-officers not liable for damage to forest-produce at depot.
• Section 44 All persons bound to aid in case of accident at depot.
• Section 45 Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of Government until title thereto proved, and may be collected accordingly.
• Section 46 Notice to claimants of drift-timber.
• Section 47 Procedure on claim preferred to such timber.
• Section 48 Disposal of unclaimed timber.
• Section 49 Government and its officers not liable for damage to such timber.
• Section 50 Payments to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him.
• Section 51 Power to make rules and prescribe penalties.
• Section 52 Seizure of property liable to confiscation.2 citing judgments
• Section 53 Power to release property seized under section 52.
• Section 54 Procedure thereupon.
• Section 55 Forest-produce, tools, etc., when liable to confiscation.
• Section 56 Disposal, on conclusion of trial for forest-offence, of produce in respect of which it was committed.
• Section 57 Procedure when offender not known, or cannot be found.
• Section 58 Procedure as to perishable property seized under section 52.
• Section 59 Appeal from orders under section .55, section 56 or section 57.
• Section 60 Property when to vest in Government.
• Section 61 Saving of power to release property seized.
• Section 62 Punishment for wrongful seizure.1 citing judgment
• Section 63 Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary-marks.1 citing judgment
• Section 64 Power to arrest without warrant.
• Section 65 Power to release on a bond a person arrested.
• Section 66 Power to prevent commission of offence.
• Section 67 Power to try offences summarily.
• Section 68 Power to compound offences and impose penalties.1 citing judgment
• Section 69 Presumption that forest-produce belongs to Government.
• Section 70 Cattle-trespass Act, 1871, to apply.
• Section 71 Power to alter fines fixed under that Act.
• Section 72 State Government may invest Forest-officers with certain powers.
• Section 73 Forest-officers deemed public servants.
• Section 74 Indemnity for acts done in good faith.1 citing judgment
• Section 75 Forest-officers not to trade.
• Section 76 Additional powers to make rules.1 citing judgment
• Section 77 Penalties for breach of rules.
• Section 78 Rules when to have force of law.
• Section 79 Persons bound to assist Forest-officers and police-officers.
• Section 80 Management of forests the joint property of Government and other persons.
• Section 81 Failure to perform service for which a share in produce of Government forest is enjoyed.
• Section 82 Recovery of money due to Government.
• Section 83 Lien on forest-produce for such money.
• Section 84 Land required under this Act to be deemed to be needed for a public purpose under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894.
• Section 85 Recovery of penalties due under bond.
• Section 85A Saving for rights of Central Government.