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Section 28: Formation of village forests

The Rajasthan Forest Act, 1953State Act of Rajasthan · Act 13 of 1953

(1) The 1 [State Government] may assign to any village community, the rights of 1 [State Government] to or over any land which has been constituted a reserved forest, and may cancel such assignment. All forests so assigned shall be called village forests.

(2) The 1 [State Government] may make rules for regulating the management of village forests, prescribing the conditions under which the community to which any such assignment is made, may be provided with timber or other forest produce or pasture, and their duties for the protection and improvement of such forest.

(3) All the provisions of this Act relating to reserved forests shall (so far as they are not inconsistent with the rules so made) apply to the village forests.

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1. Substituted by section 4 of Rajasthan Act No. 27 of 1957, published in Rajasthan Gazette, Part IV A, Extraordinary, dated

13.08.57 13

CHAPTER IV Of Protected Forests

Where this provision sits

ActThe Rajasthan Forest Act, 1953
Section28
Marginal noteFormation of village forests
JurisdictionState of Rajasthan
StatusIn force as published by the source

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