(1) If the State Government decides to terminate any period of management of any forest, it shall, by notification, published in the official Gazette, and in such other manner as may be prescribed declare such termination; and thereupon possession of the forest shall be given to the owner, or if the owner be dead, to any person entitled to such possession, together with any sum of money which may be standing to the credit of such owner.
(2) All acts done or purporting to be done by the Forest Officer in respect of any forest placed under his management, during the period of such management, shall be binding on the owner of such forest or any person to whom possession of the forest has been delivered under this section.
(3) After the period of termination of management of any forest, notwithstanding anything contained in the 1[Limitation Act, 1963]1, but subject to any law which may then be in force, all proceedings, processes, executions or attachments suspended under clause (a) of section 44 shall stand revived and may be proceeded with from the stage at which they were suspended, and all proceedings, processes, executions or attachments stayed under the said clause may be instituted, issued, enforced or executed from the stage at which they were stayed.
1. Substituted by Act 10 of 1989 w.e.f. 16.3.1989.