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Section 33: Penalties for acts in contravention of notification under section 30 or of rules under section 32.

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

(1) Any person who commits any of the following offences, namely:

(a) fells, girdles, lops, taps or burns any tree reserved under section 30, or strips off the bark or leaves from, or otherwise damages, any such tree;

(b) contrary to any prohibition under section 30, quarries any stone, or burns any lime or charcoal, or collects, subjects to any manufacturing process, or removes any forest-produce;

(c) contrary to any prohibition under section 30, breaks up or clears for cultivation or any other purpose any land in any protected forest;

(d) sets fire to such forest, or kindles a fire without taking all reasonable precautions to prevent its spreading to any tree reserved under section 30, whether standing, fallen or felled, or to any closed portion of such forest;

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(h) infringes any rule made under section 32;

shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.

(1A) Any person who in a protected forest

(a) leaves burning any fire kindled by him in the vicinity of any tree reserved under section 30, whether standing, fallen or felled, or closed portion of any protected forest;

(b) fells any tree or drags any timber so as to damage any tree reserved as aforesaid, shall be liable to penalty which may extend to five thousand rupees in addition to such compensation for damage done to the forest as determined by a Forest-officer empowered under section 68.

(2) Whenever fire is caused willfully or by gross negligence in a protected forest, the State Government may, notwithstanding that any penalty has been inflicted under this section, direct that in such forest or any portion thereof the exercise of any right of pasture or to forest-produce shall be suspended for such period as it thinks fit.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Indian Forest Act, 1927
Section33
Marginal notePenalties for acts in contravention of notification under section 30 or of rules under section 32.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source
Judgments citing it3

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.

  • omitted, Act 18 of 2023. . Clauses (e), (f) and (g) omitted by Act 18 of 2023, s. 2 and Schedule (w.e.f. 15-11-2023).
  • inserted. . Ins. by s. 2 and Schedule, ibid. (w.e.f. 15-11-2023).

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