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Indian Forest Act, 1927

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1Short title and extentView Details
10Treatment of claims relating to practice of shifting cultivationView Details
11 Power to acquire land over which right is claimedView Details
12Order on claims to rights of pasture or to forest-produceView Details
13 Record to be made by Forest Settlement-officersView Details
14 Record where he admits claimView Details
15Exercise of rights admittedView Details
16 Commutation of rightsView Details
17Appeal from order passed under section 11, section 12, section 15 or section 16View Details
18 Appeal under section 17View Details
19PleadersView Details
2 Interpretation clauseView Details
20Notification declaring forest reservedView Details
21Publication of translation of such notification in neighborhood of forestView Details
22Power to revise arrangement made under section 15 or section 18View Details
23No right acquired over reserved forest, except as here providedView Details
24 Rights not to be alienated without sanctionView Details
25Power to stop ways and water-courses in reserved forestsView Details
26Acts prohibited in such forestsView Details
27Power to declare forest no longer reservedView Details
28 Formation of village-forestsView Details
29Protected forestsView Details
3Power to reserve forestsView Details
3Power to reserve forestsView Details
30 Power to issue notification reserving trees, etcView Details
31Publication of translation of such notification in neighborhoodView Details
32 Power to make rules for protected forestsView Details
33Penalties for acts in contravention of notification under section 30 or of rules under section 32View Details
34 Nothing in this Chapter to prohibit acts done in certain casesView Details
35 Protection of forests for special purposesView Details
36Power to assume management of forestsView Details
37 Expropriation of forests in certain casesView Details
38Protection of forests at request of ownersView Details
39 Power to impose duty on timber and other forest-produceView Details
4 Notification by State GovernmentView Details
40Limit not to apply to purchase-money or royaltyView Details
41 Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest produceView Details
42Penalty for breach of rules made under section 41View Details
43 Government and Forest-officers not liable for damage to forest-produce at depotView Details
44All persons bound to aid in case of accidents at depotView Details
45Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of Government until title thereto proved, and may be collected accordinglyView Details
46 Notice to claimants of drift timberView Details
47Procedure on claim preferred to such timberView Details
48 Disposal of unclaimed timberView Details
49Government and its officers not liable for damage to such timberView Details
5Bar of accrual of forest-rightsView Details
50 Payments to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to himView Details
51Power to make rules and prescribe penaltiesView Details
52 Seizure of property liable to confiscationView Details
53Power to release property seized under section 52.View Details
54 Procedure thereuponView Details
55Forest-produce, tools, etc., when liable to confiscationView Details
56 Disposal on conclusion of trial for forest-offence, of produce in respect of which it was committedView Details
57 Procedure when offender not known or cannot be foundView Details
58 Procedure as to perishable property seized under section 52View Details
59 Appeal from orders under section 55, section 56 or section 57View Details
6 Proclamation by Forest Settlement-officerView Details
60 Property when to vest in GovernmentView Details
61 Saving of power to release property seizedView Details
62 Punishment for wrongful seizureView Details
63 Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary marksView Details
64 Power to arrest without warrantView Details
65 Power to release on a bond a person arrestedView Details
66 Power to prevent commission of offenceView Details
67 Power to try offences summarilyView Details
68 Power to compound offencesView Details
69 Presumption that forest-produce belongs to GovernmenView Details
7 Inquiry by Forest Settlement-officerView Details
70 Cattle-trespass Act, 1871, to applyView Details
71 Power to alter fines fixed under that ActView Details
72 State Government may invest Forest-officers with certain powersView Details
72Proof of document not required by law to be attestedView Details
73 Forest officers deemed public servantsView Details
74Indemnity for acts done in good faith.View Details
75Forest-officers not to tradeView Details
76Additional powers to make rulesView Details
77Penalties for breach of rulesView Details
78 Rules when to have force of lawView Details
78Rules when to have force of lawView Details
79Persons bound to assist Forest-officers and Police-officersView Details
8 Powers of Forest Settlement-officersView Details
80 Management of forests the joint property of Government and other personsView Details
80Management of forests the joint property of Government and other personsView Details
81Failure to perform service for which a share in produce of Government forest is employedView Details
82Recovery of money due to GovernmentView Details
83Lien on forest-produce for such moneyView Details
84Land required under this Act to be deemed to be needed for a public purpose under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894View Details
85 Saving for rights of Central GovernmentView Details
85Recovery of penalties due under bondView Details
86RepealsView Details
9 Extinction of rightsView Details
SCHEDULEEnactments Repealed] Rep. by sec. 2 and Sch., ibidView Details

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