Act Number: 16

Act Name: The Indian Forest Act, 1927

Year: 1927

Enactment Date: 1927-09-21

Long Title: An Act to consolidate the law relating to forests, the transit of forest-produce and the duty leviable on timber and other forest-produce.

Ministry: Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

Department:

Section 8: Powers of Forest Settlement-officer.
    For the purpose of such inquiry, the Forest Settlementofficer may exercise the following powers, that is to say:--
         (a) power to enter, by himself or any officer authorised by him for the purpose, 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.
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