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 19: Pleaders.
    The 1[State Government], or any person who has made a claim under this Act, may appoint any person to appear, plead and act on its or his behalf before the Forest Settlement-officer, or the appellate officer or Court, in the course of any inquiry or appeal under this Act.
                            STATE AMENDMENT
Uttar Pradesh
    Substitution of new section for section 19.--For section 19 of the principal Act, the following shall be substituted, namely--
    "19. Pleaders.--The State Government, or any person who has made a claim under this Act, may appoint any person to appear, plead and act on its or his behalf before the Forest Settlement Officer or the District Judge in the course of any inquiry or appeal under this Act."
[Vide Uttar Pradesh Act XXIII of 1965, s. 7]
Notes:
1. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "Provincial Government".
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