Indian Forest Act, 1927
Bare Act · 1927
An Act to consolidate the law relating to forests, the transit of forest-produce and the duty leviable on timber and other forest-produce.
In the syllabus of: HP Civil Judge · Jharkhand APO · Kerala Civil Judge
- Act number
- 16 of 1927
- Enacted
- 21 September 1927
- Contents
- 88 sections · 13 chapters
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Contents
Chapter I — Preliminary
Chapter II — Of Reserved Forests
- Section 3 – Power to reserve forests
- Section 4 – Notification by State Government
- Section 5 – Bar of accrual of forest-rights
- Section 6 – Proclamation by Forest Settlement-officer (preview)
- Section 7 – Inquiry by Forest Settlement-officer (preview)
- Section 8 – Powers of Forest Settlement-officer (preview)
- Section 9 – Extinction of rights (preview)
- Section 10 – Treatment of claims relating to practice of shifting cultivation (preview)
- Section 11 – Power to acquire land over which right is claimed (preview)
- Section 12 – Order on claims to rights of pasture or to forest-produce (preview)
- Section 13 – Record to be made by Forest Settlement-officer (preview)
- Section 14 – Record where he admits claim (preview)
- Section 15 – Exercise of rights admitted (preview)
- Section 16 – Commutation of rights (preview)
- Section 17 – Appeal from order passed under section 11, section 12, section 15 or section 16 (preview)
- Section 18 – Appeal under section 17 (preview)
- Section 19 – Pleaders (preview)
- Section 20 – Notification declaring forest reserved (preview)
- Section 21 – Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood of forest (preview)
- Section 22 – Power to revise arrangement made under section 15 or section 18 (preview)
- Section 23 – No right acquired over reserved forest, except as here provided (preview)
- Section 24 – Rights not to be alienated without sanction (preview)
- Section 25 – Power to stop ways and water-courses in reserved forests (preview)
- Section 26 – Acts prohibited in such forests (preview)
- Section 27 – Power to declare forest no longer reserved (preview)
Chapter III — Of Village-Forests
Chapter IV — Of Protected Forests
- Section 29 – Protected forests (preview)
- Section 30 – Power to issue notification reserving trees, etc (preview)
- Section 31 – Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood (preview)
- Section 32 – Power to make rules for protected forests (preview)
- Section 33 – Penalties for acts in contravention of notification under section 30 or of rules under section 32 (preview)
- Section 34 – Nothing in this Chapter to prohibit acts done in certain cases (preview)
Chapter V — Of The Control Over Forests And Lands Not Being The Property Of Government
- Section 35 – Protection of forests for special purposes (preview)
- Section 36 – Power to assume management of forests (preview)
- Section 37 – Expropriation of forests in certain cases (preview)
- Section 38 – Protection of forests at request of owners (preview)
Chapter VI — Ofthe Duty On Timber And Other Forest-Produce
- Section 39 – Power to impose duty on timber and other forest-produce (preview)
- Section 40 – Limit not to apply to purchase-money or royalty (preview)
Chapter VII — Ofthe Control Of Timber And Other Forest-Produce In Transit
- Section 41 – Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest-produce (preview)
- Section 41A – Powers of Central Government as to movements of timber across customs frontiers (preview)
- Section 42 – Penalty for breach of rules made under section 41 (preview)
- Section 43 – Governments and Forest-officers not liable for damage to forest-produce at depot (preview)
- Section 44 – All persons bound to aid in case of accident at depot (preview)
Chapter VIII — Of The Collection Of Drift And Stranded Timber
- Section 45 – Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of Government until title thereto proved, and may be collected accordingly (preview)
- Section 46 – Notice to claimants of drift-timber (preview)
- Section 47 – Procedure on claim preferred to such timber (preview)
- Section 48 – Disposal of unclaimed timber (preview)
- Section 49 – Government and its officers not liable for damage to such timber (preview)
- Section 50 – Payments to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him (preview)
- Section 51 – Power to make rules and prescribe penalties (preview)
Chapter IX — Penalties And Procedure
- Section 52 – Seizure of property liable to confiscation (preview)
- Section 53 – Power to release property seized under section 52 (preview)
- Section 54 – Procedure thereupon (preview)
- Section 55 – Forest-produce, tools, etc., when liable to confiscation (preview)
- Section 56 – Disposal, on conclusion of trial for forest-offence, of produce in respect of which it was committed (preview)
- Section 57 – Procedure when offender not known, or cannot be found (preview)
- Section 58 – Procedure as to perishable property seized under section 52 (preview)
- Section 59 – Appeal from orders under section .55, section 56 or section 57 (preview)
- Section 60 – Property when to vest in Government (preview)
- Section 61 – Saving of power to release property seized (preview)
- Section 62 – Punishment for wrongful seizure (preview)
- Section 63 – Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary-marks (preview)
- Section 64 – Power to arrest without warrant (preview)
- Section 65 – Power to release on a bond a person arrested (preview)
- Section 66 – Power to prevent commission of offence (preview)
- Section 67 – Power to try offences summarily (preview)
- Section 68 – Power to compound offences and impose penalties (preview)
- Section 69 – Presumption that forest-produce belongs to Government (preview)
Chapter X — Cattle-Trespass
- Section 70 – Cattle-trespass Act, 1871, to apply (preview)
- Section 71 – Power to alter fines fixed under that Act (preview)
Chapter XI — Of Forest-Officers
- Section 72 – State Government may invest Forest-officers with certain powers (preview)
- Section 73 – Forest-officers deemed public servants (preview)
- Section 74 – Indemnity for acts done in good faith (preview)
- Section 75 – Forest-officers not to trade (preview)
Chapter XII — Subsidiary Rules
- Section 76 – Additional powers to make rules (preview)
- Section 77 – Penalties for breach of rules (preview)
- Section 78 – Rules when to have force of law (preview)
Chapter XIII — Miscellaneous
- Section 79 – Persons bound to assist Forest-officers and police-officers (preview)
- Section 80 – Management of forests the joint property of Government and other persons (preview)
- Section 81 – Failure to perform service for which a share in produce of Government forest is enjoyed (preview)
- Section 82 – Recovery of money due to Government (preview)
- Section 83 – Lien on forest-produce for such money (preview)
- Section 84 – Land required under this Act to be deemed to be needed for a public purpose under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (preview)
- Section 85 – Recovery of penalties due under bond (preview)
- Section 85A – Saving for rights of Central Government (preview)
- Section 86 – [Repealed.] (preview)