The Forest Act, 1927

1. PreamblePreamble

Chapter I PRELIMINARY

1. Section 1Short title and extent
2. Section 2Interpretation clause

Chapter II OF RESERVED FORESTS

1. Section 3Power to reserve forests
2. Section 4Notification by Government
3. Section 5Bar of accrual of forest rights
4. Section 6Proclamation by Forest Settlement officer
5. Section 7Inquiry by Forest Settlement officer
6. Section 8Powers of Forest Settlement-officer
7. Section 9Extinction of rights
8. Section 10Treatment of claims relating to practice of shifting cultivation
9. Section 11Power to acquire land over which right is claimed
10. Section 12Order on claims to rights of pasture or to forest-produce
11. Section 13Record to be made by Forest Settlement-officer
12. Section 14Record where the admits claim
13. Section 15Exercise of rights admitted
14. Section 16Commutation of rights
15. Section 16ATime limit for resolution of claims
16. Section 17Appeal from order passed under section 11, section 12, section 15 or section 16
17. Section 18Appeal under section 17
18. Section 19Pleaders
19. Section 20Notification declaring forest reserved
20. Section 21Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood of forest
21. Section 22Power to revise arrangement made under section 15 or section 18
22. Section 23No right acquired over reserved forest, except as here provided
23. Section 24Rights not to be alienated without sanction
24. Section 25Power to stop ways and water-courses in reserved forests
25. Section 26Acts prohibited in such forests
26. Section 27Power to declare forest no longer reserved

Chapter III OF VILLAGE-FORESTS AND SOCIAL FORESTRY

1. Section 28BEffect of other of law on social forestry
2. Section 28Formation of village forests
3. Section 28ASocial Forestry

Chapter IV OF PROTECTED FORESTS

1. Section 29Protected forests
2. Section 30Power to issue notification reserving trees, etc.
3. Section 31Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood
4. Section 32Power to make rules for protected forests
5. Section 33Penalties for acts in contravention of [section 28A or of] notification under section 30 or of rules under section 32
6. Section 34Nothing in this Chapter to prohibit acts done in certain cases

Chapter V OF THE CONTROL OVER FORESTS AND LANDS NOT BEING THE PROPERTY OF GOVERNMENT

1. Section 35[Repealed]Repealed
2. Section 36[Repealed]Repealed
3. Section 37[Repealed]Repealed
4. Section 38[Repealed]Repealed
5. Section 38AOperation of the Privet Forest Ordinance
6. Section 38CRestricted activities
7. Section 38BNotice of forest management activities
8. Section 38DAbetment of forest nuisances

Chapter VI OF THE DUTY ON TIMBER AND OTHER FOREST-PRODUCE

1. Section 39Power to impose duty on timber and other forest produce
2. Section 40Limit not apply to purchase money for royalty

Chapter VII OF THE CONTROL OF TIMBER AND OTHER FOREST-PRODUCE IN TRANSIT

1. Section 41Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest-produce
2. Section 41A[Omitted ]Repealed
3. Section 42Penalty for breach of rules made under section 41
4. Section 43Government and Forest-officers not liable for damage to forest-produce at depot
5. Section 44All persons bound to aid in case of accident at depot

Chapter VIII OF THE COLLECTION OF DRIFT AND STRANDED TIMBER

1. Section 45Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of Government until title thereto proved, and may be collected accordingly
2. Section 46Notice to claimants of drift timber
3. Section 47Procedure on claim preferred to such timber
4. Section 48Disposal of unclaimed timber
5. Section 49Government and its officers not liable for damage to such timber
6. Section 50Payments to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to- him
7. Section 51Power to make rule and prescribe penalties

Chapter IX PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE

1. Section 52Seizure of property liable to confiscation
2. Section 53Power to release property seized under section 52
3. Section 54Procedure thereupon
4. Section 55Forest produce, tools, etc. when liable to confiscation
5. Section 56Disposal on conclusion of trial for forest-offence of produce in respect which it was committed
6. Section 57Procedure when offender not known, or cannot be found
7. Section 58Procedure as to perishable property seized under section 52
8. Section 59Appeal from orders under section 55, section 56, or section 57
9. Section 60Property when to vest in Government
10. Section 61Saving of power to release property seized
11. Section 62Punishment for wrongful seizure
12. Section 63Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary marks
13. Section 63ASome offence to be non-bailable
14. Section 64Power to arrest without warrant
15. Section 65Power to release on a bond a person arrested
16. Section 66Power to prevent commission of offence
17. Section 67Power to try offences summarily
18. Section 67AAppointment of forest Magistrate
19. Section 68Power to compound offences
20. Section 69Presumption that forest produce belongs to Government
21. Section 69AProsecution of forest-offences

Chapter X CATTLE-TRESPASS

1. Section 70Cattle-tress-pass Act, 1871, to apply
2. Section 71Power to alter fines fixed under that Act

Chapter XI OF FORESTS OFFICERS

1. Section 72Government may invest Forest-Officers with certain powers
2. Section 73Forest-officers deemed public servants
3. Section 74Indemnity for acts done in good faith
4. Section 75Forest-officers not to trade

Chapter XII SUBSIDIARY RULES

1. Section 76Additional powers to make rules
2. Section 77Penalties for breach of rules
3. Section 78Rules when to have force of law

Chapter XIII MISCELLANEOUS

1. Section 79Persons bound to assist Forest-officers and Police-officers
2. Section 80Management of forests the joint property of Government and other persons
3. Section 81Failure to perform service for which a share in produce of Government forest is enjoyed
4. Section 82Recovery of money due to Government
5. Section 83Lien on forest-produce for such money
6. Section 84Land required under this Act to be deemed to be needed for a public purpose under the Acquisition and Requisition of Immovable Property Ordinance, 1982
7. Section 85Recovery of penalties due under bond
8. Section 85A[Omitted]Repealed
9. Section 86[Omitted]Repealed

Schedules

1. ScheduleTHE SCHEDULE − [Repealed by Article 2 and Schedule of the Central Laws (Adaptation)