Indian Forest Act 1927
State Act of Tripura ยท Act 1 of 192786 provisions
The enactment
| Long title | Indian Forest Act 1927 |
|---|---|
| Type | Act |
| Citation | Act 1 of 1927 |
| Year | 1927 |
| Jurisdiction | State of Tripura |
| Status | In force as published by the source |
| Provisions published | 86 |
| Subjects | environment |
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- Section 1 Short title and extent
- Section 2 Interpretation clause
- Section 3 Power to reserve forests
- Section 4 Notification by 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-officers
- 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 Order on claims to rights of pasture or to forest-produce
- Section 13 Record to be made by Forest Settlement-officer
- Section 14 Record where he admits claim
- Section 15 Exercise of rights 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 of forest
- Section 23 No right acquired over reserved forest, except as here provided
- Section 24 Rights not to be alienated without sanction
- Section 25 Power to stop ways and water-courses in reserved forests
- 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 forests
- Section 33 Penalties for acts in contravention of notification under section 30 or of rules under section 32
- Section 34 Nothing in this Chapter to prohibit acts done in certain cases
- Section 35 Protection of forests for special purposes
- Section 36 Power to assume management of forests
- Section 37 Expropriation of forests in certain cases
- Section 38 Protection of forests at request of owners
- Section 39 Power to impose duty on timber and other forest-produce
- Section 40 Limit not to apply to purchase-money or royalty
- Section 41 Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest produce
- Section 41A Powers of Central Government as to movements of timber across customs frontiers
- Section 42 Penalty for breach of rules made under section 41
- Section 43 Government and Forest-officers not liable for damage to forest-produce at depot
- Section 44 All persons bound to aid in case of accidents at depot
- Section 45 Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of 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 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 52 Seizure of property liable to confiscation
- Section 53 Power to release property seized under section 52
- Section 54 Procedure thereupon
- 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 siezed under section 52
- Section 59 Appeal from orders under section 55, section 56 or section 57
- Section 60 Property when to vest in Government
- Section 61 Saving of power to release property seized
- Section 62 Punishment for wrongful seizure
- Section 63 Penalty for 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 67 Power to try offences summarily
- Section 68 Power to compound offences
- Section 69 Presumption that forest-produce belongs to Government
- Section 70 Cattle-trespass Act, 1871, to apply
- Section 71 Power to alter fines fixed under that Act
- Section 72 State Government may invest Forest-officers 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 Persons bound to assist Forest-officers and Police-officers
- Section 80 Management of forests the joint property of Government and other persons
- Section 81 Failure to perform service for which a share in produce of Government forest is employed
- Section 83 Lien on forest-produce for such money
- Section 84 Land required under this Act to be deemed to be needed for a public purpose under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894
- Section 85 Recovery of penalties due under bond
- Section 85A Saving for rights of Central Government
- Section 86 Repeals
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