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 23: No right acquired over reserved forest, except as here provided.
    No right of any description shall be acquired in or over a reserved forest except by succession or under a grant or contract in writing made by or on behalf of the 1[Government] or some person in whom such right was vested when the notification under section 20 was issued.
Notes:
1. Subs. the A.O. 1950, for "Crown".
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