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Section 30: Power to issue notification reserving trees, etc.

The Indian Forest Act, 1927Central Act · Act 16 of 1927

The [State Government] may, by notification in the [Official Gazette],--

(a) declare any trees or class of trees in a protected forests to be reserved from a date fixed by the notification;

(b) declare that any portion of such forest specified in the notification shall be closed for such term, not exceeding thirty years, as the [State Government] thinks fit, and that the rights of private persons, if any, over such portion shall be suspended during such term, provided that the remainder of such forest be sufficient, and in a locality reasonably convenient, for the due exercise of the rights suspended in the portion so closed; or

(c) prohibit, from a date fixed as aforesaid, the quarrying of stone, or the burning of lime or charcoal, or the collection or subjection to any manufacturing process, or removal of, any forestproduce in any such forest, and the breaking up or clearing for cultivation, for building, for herding cattle or for any other purpose, of any land in any such forest.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Indian Forest Act, 1927
Section30
Marginal notePower to issue notification reserving trees, etc.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted. . Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "Provincial Government".
  • substituted. . Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "Local Official Gazette".

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