Section 3Power to reserve forests

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3. Power to reserve forests The Government may constitute any forest-land or waste-land [or any land suitable for afforestation] which is the property of Government, or over which the Government has proprietary rights, or to the whole or any part of the forest-produce of which the Government is entitled, a reserved forest in the manner hereinafter provided.

1. 4. The words "or any land suitable for afforestation" were inserted by section 2of the Forest (Amendment) Act, 1990 (Act No. VIII of 1990)