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Section 69: Persons bound to assist Forest Officers and Police Officers

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

69. (1) Every person who exercise any right in a vested forest or who is permitted to take any forest produce from, or to cut and remove trees or timber in or from, or to pasture cattle, in such forest, and every person, who is employed by such person in such forest, and every person in any village contiguous to such forest who is employed by the Government or who receives emoluments from the Government for services to be performed to the community, shall be bound to furnish without unnecessary delay to the nearest Forest Officer or Police Officer any information he may possess respecting the commission of, or intention to commit, any forest offences, and shall forthwith take steps, whether so required by any Forest Officer or Police Officer or not-

(a) to extinguish any forest fire in such forest of which he has knowledge or information,/

(b) to prevent by any lawful means in his power any fire in the vicinity of such forest, of which he has knowledge or information from, spreading to such forest, and shall assist any Forest Officer or Police Officer demanding his aid,

(c) in preventing the commission in such forest of any forest offence, and

(d) when there is reason to believe that any such offence has been committed in such forest in discovering and arresting the offender.

(2) Any person who, being bound so to do, without lawful excuse (the burden of proving which shall lie upon such person) fails-

(a) to furnish without unnecessary delay to the nearest Forest Officer or Police Officer any information required by sub-section (1), or

(b) to take steps, as required by sub-section (1) to extinguish any forest fire in a vested forest, or

(c) to assist any Forest Officer or Police Officer demanding his aid in preventing the commission in such forest of any forest offence, or, when there is reason to believe that any such offence has been committed in such forest, in discovering and arresting the offender, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees, or with both.

Where this provision sits

ActThe United Provinces Private Forests Act, 1948
Section69
Marginal notePersons bound to assist Forest Officers and Police Officers
JurisdictionState of Uttar Pradesh
StatusIn force as published by the source

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