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 70: Cattle-trespass Act, 1871, to apply.
    Cattle trespassing in a reserved forest or in any portion of a protected forest which has been lawfully closed to grazing shall be deemed to be cattle doing damage to a public plantation within the meaning of section 11 of the Cattle-trespass Act, 1871 (1 of 1871), and may be seized and impounded as such by any Forest-officer or Police-officer.
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