Section 45Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary marks

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45. 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 [* * *] Penal Code- (a) knowingly counterfeits upon any timber or standing tree in a controlled or vested forest a mark used by Forest Officers to indicate that such timber or tree is the property of the 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 marks placed on a tree or on timber in a controlled or vested forest by or under the authority of a Forest Officer, or (c) alters, moves, destroys or defaces any boundary mark of any forest or wasteland to which the provisions of the Ordinance apply or are applied, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with fine, or with both.

1. 12. The word “Pakistan” was omitted by Article 6 of the Bangladesh (Adaptation of Existing Laws) Order, 1972 (President’s Order No. 48 of 1972)