| 1 |
Short title and extent. | Read |
| 2 |
Interpretation clause. | Read |
| 3 |
Power to reserve forests. | Read |
| 4 |
Notification by State Government. | Read |
| 5 |
Bar of accrual of forest-rights. | Read |
| 6 |
Proclamation by Forest Settlement-officer. | Read |
| 7 |
Inquiry by Forest Settlement-officer. | Read |
| 8 |
Powers of Forest Settlement-officer. | Read |
| 9 |
Extinction of rights. | Read |
| 10 |
Treatment of claims relating to practice of shifting cultivation. | Read |
| 11 |
Power to acquire land over which right is claimed. | Read |
| 12 |
Order on claims to rights of pasture or to forest-produce. | Read |
| 13 |
Record to be made by Forest Settlement-officer. | Read |
| 14 |
Record where he admits claim. | Read |
| 15 |
Exercise of rights admitted. | Read |
| 16 |
Commutation of rights. | Read |
| 17 |
Appeal from order passed under section 11, section 12, section 15 or section 16. | Read |
| 18 |
Appeal under section 17. | Read |
| 19 |
Pleaders. | Read |
| 20 |
Notification declaring forest reserved. | Read |
| 21 |
Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood of forest. | Read |
| 22 |
Power to revise arrangement made under section 15 or section 18. | Read |
| 23 |
No right acquired over reserved forest, except as here provided. | Read |
| 24 |
Rights not to be alienated without sanction. | Read |
| 25 |
Power to stop ways and water-courses in reserved forests. | Read |
| 26 |
Acts prohibited in such forests. | Read |
| 27 |
Power to declare forest no longer reserved. | Read |
| 28 |
Formation of village-forests. | Read |
| 29 |
Protected forests. | Read |
| 30 |
Power to issue notification reserving trees, etc. | Read |
| 31 |
Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood. | Read |
| 32 |
Power to make rules for protected forests. | Read |
| 33 |
Penalties for acts in contravention of notification under section 30 or of rules under section 32. | Read |
| 34 |
Nothing in this Chapter to prohibit acts done in certain cases. | Read |
| 35 |
Protection of forests for special purposes. | Read |
| 36 |
Power to assume management of forests. | Read |
| 37 |
Expropriation of forests in certain cases. | Read |
| 38 |
Protection of forests at request of owners. | Read |
| 39 |
Power to impose duty on timber and other forest-produce. | Read |
| 40 |
Limit not to apply to purchase-money or royalty. | Read |
| 41 |
Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest-produce. | Read |
| 41A |
Powers of Central Government as to movements of timber across customs frontiers. | Read |
| 42 |
Penalty for breach of rules made under section 41. | Read |
| 43 |
Governments and Forest-officers not liable for damage to forest-produce at depot. | Read |
| 44 |
All persons bound to aid in case of accident at depot. | Read |
| 45 |
Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of Government until title thereto proved, and may be collected accordingly. | Read |
| 46 |
Notice to claimants of drift-timber. | Read |
| 47 |
Procedure on claim preferred to such timber. | Read |
| 48 |
Disposal of unclaimed timber. | Read |
| 49 |
Government and its officers not liable for damage to such timber. | Read |
| 50 |
Payments to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him. | Read |
| 51 |
Power to make rules and prescribe penalties. | Read |
| 52 |
Seizure of property liable to confiscation. | Read |
| 53 |
Power to release property seized under section 52. | Read |
| 54 |
Procedure thereupon. | Read |
| 55 |
Forest-produce, tools, etc., when liable to confiscation. | Read |
| 56 |
Disposal, on conclusion of trial for forest-offence, of produce in respect of which it was committed. | Read |
| 57 |
Procedure when offender not known, or cannot be found. | Read |
| 58 |
Procedure as to perishable property seized under section 52. | Read |
| 59 |
Appeal from orders under section .55, section 56 or section 57. | Read |
| 60 |
Property when to vest in Government. | Read |
| 61 |
Saving of power to release property seized. | Read |
| 62 |
Punishment for wrongful seizure. | Read |
| 63 |
Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary-marks. | Read |
| 64 |
Power to arrest without warrant. | Read |
| 65 |
Power to release on a bond a person arrested. | Read |
| 66 |
Power to prevent commission of offence. | Read |
| 67 |
Power to try offences summarily. | Read |
| 68 |
Power to compound offences. | Read |
| 69 |
Presumption that forest-produce belongs to Government. | Read |
| 70 |
Cattle-trespass Act, 1871, to apply. | Read |
| 71 |
Power to alter fines fixed under that Act. | Read |
| 72 |
State Government may invest Forest-officers with certain powers. | Read |
| 73 |
Forest-officers deemed public servants. | Read |
| 74 |
Indemnity for acts done in good faith. | Read |
| 75 |
Forest-officers not to trade. | Read |
| 76 |
Additional powers to make rules. | Read |
| 77 |
Penalties for breach of rules. | Read |
| 78 |
Rules when to have force of law. | Read |
| 79 |
Persons bound to assist Forest-officers and police-officers. | Read |
| 80 |
Management of forests the joint property of Government and other persons. | Read |
| 81 |
Failure to perform service for which a share in produce of Government forest is enjoyed. | Read |
| 82 |
Recovery of money due to Government. | Read |
| 83 |
Lien on forest-produce for such money. | Read |
| 84 |
Land required under this Act to be deemed to be needed for a public purpose under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. | Read |
| 85 |
Recovery of penalties due under bond. | Read |
| 85A |
Saving for rights of Central Government. | Read |
| 86 |
[Repealed.]. | Read |
