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 24: Rights not to be alienated without sanction.
    (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 23, no right continued under clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 15 shall be alienated by way of grant, sale, lease, mortgage or otherwise, without the sanction of the 1[State Government]:
     Provided that, when any such right is appendant to any land or house, it may be sold or otherwise alienated with such land or house.
     (2) No timber or other forest-produce obtained in exercise of any such right shall be sold or bartered except to such extent as may have been admitted in the order recorded under section 14.
Notes:
1. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "Provincial Government".
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