The Odisha Forest Act, 1972.
State Act of Odisha ยท Act 14 of 197273 provisions
The enactment
| Type | Act |
|---|---|
| Citation | Act 14 of 1972 |
| Year | 1972 |
| Jurisdiction | State of Odisha |
| Status | In force as published by the source |
| Provisions published | 73 |
| Subjects | environment |
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- Section 1 Short title, extend and commencement
- Section 2 Definitions
- Section 3 Power to reserve forests
- Section 4 Notification by State Government
- Section 5 Bar to accrual of forest rights and bar of suits
- Section 6 Proclamation by Forest Settlement Officer
- Section 7 Inquiry by the Forest Settlement Officer
- Section 8 Power of Forest Settlement Officer
- Section 9 Extinction of rights
- Section 10 Claims relating to practice of shifting cultivation
- Section 11 Power to acquire land over which right is claimed
- Section 12 Claims to right of way, right to water-course or to use of water, etc.
- Section 13 Record to be made by the Forest Settlement Officer
- Section 14 Record where he admits claims
- Section 15 Exercise of rights admitted
- Section 16 Commutation of rights
- Section 17 Appeal from orders passed under Section 11, 12, 15 or 16
- Section 18 Appeal under Section 17
- Section 19 Power of revision
- Section 20 Pleaders
- Section 21 Notifications declaring forest reserved
- Section 22 Publication of translation of such Notification in neighbourhood of forests
- Section 23 Powers to revise arrangement made under Section 15 or Section 18
- Section 24 No right to be acquired over reserved forest except as herein provided
- Section 25 Rights not to alienate without sanction
- Section 26 Power of stop ways and water courses in reserved forests
- Section 27 Offences
- Section 28 Suspension of rights in reserved forest
- Section 29 Power to declare Forest no longer reserved
- Section 30 Constitution of village forest
- Section 31 Power to make rules for village forests
- Section 32 Inquiry into and settlement of rights
- Section 33 Protected forest
- Section 34 Power to issue notification reserving trees, etc.
- Section 35 Publication or translation of such notification in neighbourhood
- Section 36 Powers to make rules for protected forests
- Section 37 Penalties for acts in contravention of notification under Section 34 or of Rules under Section 36
- Section 38 Nothing in this chapter to prohibit acts done in certain cases
- Section 39 Protection of forests for special purpose
- Section 40 Power to assume management of forests
- Section 41 Acquisition of forests in certain cases
- Section 42 Prohibition of cutting fruits - bearing trees
- Section 43 Protection of forests at request of owners
- Section 44 Management of forests, the joint-property of Government and other person
- Section 45 Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest produce
- Section 46 Penalty for breach of rules made under Section 45
- Section 47 Government and forest officers not liable for damage to forest produce at Depot
- Section 48 All persons bound to aid in case of accident at Depot
- Section 49 Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of Government until title thereto is proved and may be collected accordingly
- Section 50 Notice to claimants of drifit timber
- Section 51 Procedure on claim preferred to such timber
- Section 52 Disposal of unclaimed timber
- Section 53 Government and its officers not liable for damages to such timber
- Section 54 Payments to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to 26 him
- Section 55 Power to make rules and prescribe penalties
- Section 56 Seizure of property liable to confiscation
- Section 58 Action after seizure
- Section 59 Forest produce, tools, etc. liable to confiscation
- Section 60 Disposal on conclusion of trial for forest offence of produce in respect of which it was committed
- Section 61 Procedure when offender not known, or cannot be found
- Section 62 Procedure as to perishable property seized under Section 56
- Section 63 Appeal from order under Section 59, 60 or 61
- Section 64 Property when to vest in Government
- Section 65 Saving of power to release property seized
- Section 66 Punishment for wrongful seizure
- Section 67 Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary marks
- Section 68 Powers to arrest without warrant
- Section 69 Power to release on a bond a person arrested
- Section 70 Power to prevent commission of offence
- Section 71 Power to try offence summarily
- Section 72 Power to compound of offences
- Section 73 Presumption that forest produce belongs to Government
- Section 262 74. Operation of other laws not barred
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