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 27: Power to declare forest no longer reserved.
    (1) The 1[State Government] may, by notification in the 2[Official Gazette], direct that, from a date fixed by such notification, any forest or any portion thereof reserved under this Act shall cease to be a reserved forest.
     (2) From the date so fixed, such forest or portion shall cease to be reserved; but the rights (if any) which have been extinguished therein shall not revive in consequence of such cessation.
                                STATE AMENDMENTS
Uttar Pradesh
    Addition of new section 27-A.--In Chapter II of the principal Act, after section 27, the following new section shall be added, namely--
        "27-A. Finality of orders etc.--No act done, order made or certificate issued in exercise of any power conferred by or under this Chapter shall, except as hereinbefore provided, be called in question in any Court."
[Vide Uttar Pradesh Act XXIII of 1965, s. 12]
Notes:
1. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "Provincial Government".
2. Subs., ibid, for "Local Official Gazette".
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