Section 51: Power to make rules and prescribe penalties
Indian Forest Act 1927State Act of Tripura · Act 1 of 1927
(1) The State Government in make rules to regulate the following matters, namely:
(a) the salving, collection and disposal of all timber mentioned in section 45;
(b) the use and registration of boats used in salving and collecting timber;
(c) the amounts to be paid for salving, collecting, moving, storing or disposing such timber; and
(d) the use and registration of hammers and other instruments to be used marking such timber.
(2) The State Government may prescribe, as penalties for the contravention of any rule made under this section, imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or both.