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Section 5: Bar to accrual of forest rights and bar of suits

The Odisha Forest Act, 1972.State Act of Odisha · Act 14 of 1972

(1) After the issue of a notification under Section 4, no right shall be acquired in or over the land comprised in such notification, except by succession or under a grant or contract in writing made or entered into by or on behalf of the State Government or some person in whom such right was vested when the notification was issued; and no fresh clearing or breaking of land for cultivation or for any other purpose or construction of shed or other structures shall be made in such land except in accordance with such rules as may be made by the State Government in that behalf.

(2) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, no Civil Court shall, between the date of publication of the notification under Section 4 and of the notification to be issued under Section 21, entertain any suit to establish any right in or over any land included in the notification published under Section 4.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Odisha Forest Act, 1972.
Section5
Marginal noteBar to accrual of forest rights and bar of suits
JurisdictionState of Odisha
StatusIn force as published by the source

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