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THE FOREST ACT, 1927
(Act No. XVI of 1927)
(As modified up to 30th
April 2000)
Compiled by:
Laskar Maqsudur Rahman
M.Sc.(DU),M.Sc.(Pak),M.Sc.(UK),LL.B.(NU)
INDEX
THE FOREST ACT, 1927
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
1. Short title and extent 8
2. Interpretation clause 9
CHAPTER II
OF RESERVED FORESTS
3. Power to reserve forests 10
4. Notification by Government 11
5. Bar of accrual of forest-rights 11
6. Proclamation by Forest Settlement-officer 12
7. Inquiry by Forest Settlement-officer 13
8. Powers of Forest Settlement-officer 13
9. Extinction of rights 13
10. Treatment of claims relating to practice of shifting cultivation 13
11. Power to acquire land over which right is claimed 14
12. Order on claims to rights of pasture or to forest-produce 15
13. Record to be made by Forest Settlement-officer 16 -
14. Record where he admits claim 16
15. Exercise of rights admitted 16
16. Commutation of rights 17
16A.Time limit for resolution of claims 17
17. Appeal from order passed under section 11, section 12, section 15 or
section 16 18
18. Appeal under section 17 18
19. Pleaders 18
20. Notification declaring forest reserved 19
21. Publication of translation of such notification in neighborhood of
forest 20
22. Power to revise arrangement under section 15 or section 18 20
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23. No right acquired over reserved forest except, as here provided 20
24. Rights not to be alienated without sanction 20
25. Power to stop ways and water-courses in reserved forests 21
26. Acts prohibited in such forests 2 J
27. Power to declare forest no longer reserved 23
CHAPTER III
OF VILLAGE-FORESTS AND SOCIAL FORESTRY
28. Formation of village-forests 24
28A. Social Forestry 24
28B. Effect of other provisions of law on social forestry 26
CHAPTER IV
OF PROTECTED FORESTS
29. Protected forests 27
30. Power to issue notification reserving trees, etc. 28
31. Publication of translation of such notification in neighborhood 28
32. Power to make rules for protected forests 29
33. Penalties for acts in contravention of notification under section 30 or
of rules under section 32 30
34. Nothing 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
35. [Protection of forests for special purposes] Repealed
36. [Power to assume management of forests] Repealed
37. [Expropriation of forests in certain cases] Repealed
38. [Protection of forests at request of owners] Repealed
38A. Operation of the Private Forest Ordinance 32
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38B. Notice of forest management activities 33
38C. Restricted activities 33
38D. Abatement of forest nuisances 34
CHAPTER VI
OF THE DUTY ON TIMBER AND OTHER FOREST-PRODUCE
39. Power to impose duty on timber and other forest-produce 34
40. Limit not to apply to purchase money or royalty 35
CHAPTER VII
OF THE CONTROL OF TIMBER AND OTHER.
FOREST-PRODUCE IN TRANSIT
41. Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest-produce 35
41A. [Omitted]
42. Penalty for breach of rules made under section 41 38
43. Government and Forest-officers not liable for damage to forest-
produce at depot 38
44. All persons bound to aid in case of accident at depot 38
CHAPTER VIII
OF THE COLLECTION OF DRIFT AND STRANDED TIMBER
45. Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of Government until
title thereto proved, and may be collected accordingly 39
46. Notice to claimants of drift timber 39
47. Procedure on claim preferred to such 40
48. Disposal of unclaimed timber 40
49. Government and its officers not liable for damage to such timber 41
50. Payments to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him
41
51. Power to make rules and prescribe penalties 41
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