Section 21: Power of Forest Settlement Officer

The United Provinces Private Forests Act, 1948State Act of Uttar Pradesh · Act 6 of 1949

21. For the purposes of such inquiry the Forest Settlement Officer may exercise the following powers, that is to say-

(a) power to enter, by himself or to authorise any officer to enter upon any land, and to survey, demarcate and make a map of the same; and

(b) the powers of a Civil Court in the trial of suits.

Where this provision sits

Act	The United Provinces Private Forests Act, 1948
Section	21
Marginal note	Power of Forest Settlement Officer
Jurisdiction	State of Uttar Pradesh
Status	In force as published by the source

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