The Rajasthan Forest Act, 1953
State Act of Rajasthan ยท Act 13 of 195385 provisions
The enactment
| Type | Act |
|---|---|
| Citation | Act 13 of 1953 |
| Year | 1953 |
| Jurisdiction | State of Rajasthan |
| Status | In force as published by the source |
| Provisions published | 85 |
| Subjects | environment |
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- Section 1 Short Title, Extent and Commencement
- Section 2 Definitions
- Section 3 Power to reserve forest
- Section 4 Notification by 1 [State Government
- Section 5 Bar of accrual of forest rights
- Section 6 Proclamation by Forest Settlement Officer
- Section 7 Inquiry by Forest Settlement Officer
- Section 8 Powers of Forest Settlement Officer
- Section 9 Extinction of rights
- Section 10 Treatment of claims relating to practice of shifting cultivation
- Section 11 Power to acquire land over which right is claimed
- Section 12 Claims to rights of way, water-course, pasture, and to forest produce
- Section 13 Record to be made by Forest Settlement Officer
- Section 14 Record where he admits claims
- Section 15 Exercise of right admitted
- Section 16 Commutation of rights
- Section 17 Appeal from order passed under Section 11, Section 12, Section 15 or Section 16
- Section 18 Appeal under Section 17
- Section 19 Pleaders
- Section 20 Notification declaring forest reserved
- Section 21 Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood
- Section 22 Power to revise arrangements made under Section 15 or Section 18
- Section 23 No right acquired over reserved forest, except as here provided
- Section 24 Rights not to be alienated without sanction
- Section 26 Acts prohibited in such forests
- Section 27 Power to declare forest no longer reserved
- Section 28 Formation of village forests
- Section 29 Protected Forests
- Section 30 Power to issue notification reserving trees etc
- Section 31 Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood
- Section 32 Power to make rules for protected forest
- Section 33 Penalties for acts in contravention of notification under Section 30 or Rules under Section 32
- Section 34 Nothing in this chapter to prohibit acts done in certain cases
- Section 35 Protection of forest for special purposes
- Section 36 Power to assume management of forest
- Section 37 Expropriation of forests in certain cases
- Section 38 Protection of forest at request of owners
- Section 39 Power to impose duty on timber and other forest produce
- Section 40 Duty not to affect purchase money or royalty
- Section 41 Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest produce
- Section 42 Penalty for breach of rules made under Section 41
- Section 43 1 [State Government] and Forest Officers not liable for damage to Forest produce at depots
- Section 44 All persons bound to aid in case of accident at Depot
- Section 45 Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of the 1 [State Government] until title thereto proved and may be collected accordingly
- Section 46 Notice to claimants of drift timber
- Section 47 Procedure on claim preferred to such timber
- Section 48 Disposal of unclaimed timber
- Section 49 1 [State Government] and its officers not liable for damage to such timber
- Section 50 Payments to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him
- Section 51 Power to make rules and prescribe penalties
- Section 52B Revision before Court of Sessions against order of Appellate Authority
- Section 52C Bar to jurisdiction of Court, etc. under certain circumstances
- Section 54 1 [Subsequent procedure
- Section 55 Forest Produce, tools, etc., when liable to confiscation
- Section 56 Disposal on conclusion of trial for forest, offence of produce in respect of which it was committed
- Section 57 Procedure when offender not known or cannot be found
- Section 58 Procedure as to perishable property seized under Section 52
- Section 59 Appeal from order under Section 55, Section 56 or Section 57
- Section 60 Property when to vest in [State [State Government
- Section 61 Saving of power to release property seized
- Section 62 Punishment for wrongful seizure
- Section 63 Penalty far counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary marks
- Section 64 Power to arrest without warrant
- Section 65 Power to release on a bond a person arrested
- Section 66 Power to prevent commission of offence
- Section 68 Power to compound offence
- Section 69 Presumption that forest produce belongs to 1 [State Government
- Section 70 Cattle Trespass Act to apply
- Section 71 1 [Power to alter fines fixed under the central Act No. 1 of 1871
- Section 72 1 [State Government] invests Forest Officer with certain powers
- Section 73 Forest Officers deemed public servants
- Section 74 Indemnity for acts done in good faith
- Section 75 Forest Officers not to trade
- Section 76 Additional powers to make rules
- Section 77 Penalties for breach of rules
- Section 78 Rules when to have force of law
- Section 79 Person bound to assist Forest Officer and Police Officers
- Section 80 Management of Forests the joint property of 1 [State Government] and other persons
- Section 81 Failure to perform service for which a share in produce of 1 [State Government] forest is enjoyed
- Section 82 Recovery of money due to 1 [State Government
- Section 83 Lien on forest produce for such money
- Section 84 Land required under this Act to be deemed to be needed for public purpose under the Land Acquisition Law in force
- Section 85 Recovery of penalties due under bond
- Section 86 Power to exempt
- Section 87 Act and to affect or impair certain rights of Rules
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