Section 63:
Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary-marks.
Whoever, with intent to cause damage or injury to the public or to any person, or to cause
wrongful gain as defined in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860),--
(a) knowingly counterfeits upon any timber or standing tree a mark used by Forest-officers to
indicate that such timber or tree is the property of the 1[Government] or of some person, or that it may
lawfully be cut or removed by some person; or
(b) alters, defaces or obliterates any such mark placed on a tree or on timber by or under the
authority of a Forest-officer; or
(c) alters, moves, destroys or defaces any boundary-mark of any forest or waste-land to which the
provisions of this Act are applied, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with
both.
STATE AMENDMENT
Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh (UTs).--
Section 63.--For the words, "or with fine", substitute the words "or with fine which may extend to twenty-five thousand rupees".
[Vide the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020, notification
No. S.O. 1123(E) dated (18-3-2020) and Vide Union Territory of Ladakh Reorganisation (Adaptation of
Central Laws) Order, 2020, notification No. S.O.3774(E), dated (23-10-2020).]
Notes:
1. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "Crown".