United Provinces Private Forests Act, 1948 (Uttar Pradesh)

Bare Act · 1948

Act number: 6 of 1949
Enacted: 11 May 1949
Contents: 76 sections

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Section 1 – Short title, extent and commencement
Section 2 – Act not to apply to certain lands
Section 3 – Definitions, Act No. 16 of 1927
Section 4 – Power to prohibit the cutting of trees
Section 5 – Rights in notified area or forest to be exercisable in accordance with this Ac
Section 6 – Restrictions on rights to cut, collect, or remove timber, etc. for domestic or agricultural needs (preview)
Section 7 – Restrictions on right to reclaim forest for purposes of cultivation (preview)
Section 8 – Height of which trees and age of bamboo culms that may be cut (preview)
Section 9 – Certain persons not to sell or transfer timber cut in any forest (preview)
Section 10 – Restrictions on rights of landlord, or persons claiming through landlord to cut and remove timber or forest produce (preview)
Section 11 – Restrictions on right to graze cattle (preview)
Section 12 – Grant of permits to fell trees (preview)
Section 13 – Management of forests by owner under an approved working plan (preview)
Section 14 – Management of the forest (preview)
Section 15 – Offences under this Chapter and trial of such offences and penalties thereof (preview)
Section 16 – Power to constitute a vested forest (preview)
Section 17 – Notification by State Government (preview)
Section 18 – Hearing of objections (preview)
Section 19 – Proclamation by Forest Settlement Officer (preview)
Section 20 – Inquiry by Forest Settlement Officer (preview)
Section 21 – Power of Forest Settlement Officer (preview)
Section 22 – Order on claims to rights of pasture or to forest produce (preview)
Section 23 – Manner in which Forest Settlement Officer should pass orders (preview)
Section 24 – Suspension of rights when required for the conservation of a forest (preview)
Section 25 – Extinction of rights (preview)
Section 26 – Prohibition of further contracts (preview)
Section 27 – Prohibition of cutting of trees (preview)
Section 28 – Procedure for dealing with claims of forest contractors (preview)
Section 29 – Appeal from orders passed under Section 22, Section 24 or Section 28 (preview)
Section 30 – Appeal under Section 29 (preview)
Section 31 – Pleaders (preview)
Section 32 – Notification declaring an area to be a vested fores (preview)
Section 33 – Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood of forest (preview)
Section 34 – Control and management of vested forests to vest in the State Government (preview)
Section 35 – Appointment of Forest Officers for vested forests (preview)
Section 36 – Power to invest Forest Officers with certain powers (preview)
Section 37 – Demarcation of vested forests (preview)
Section 38 – Extent to which landlord is to be allowed to remove timber and other produce from vested forest (preview)
Section 39 – State Government to receive all revenues from and incur expenditure on vested forest (preview)
Section 40 – Maintenance of revenue and expenditure account (preview)
Section 41 – Payment of allowances for, and net profits of vested forests to landlord (preview)
Section 42 – Right of rightholders to be exercised in accordance with rules (preview)
Section 43 – Grouping of forests for management (preview)
Section 44 – System of annual coupes (preview)
Section 45 – Extent of rights of right-holders to be varied by Forest Officer (preview)
Section 46 – Release of vested forests (preview)
Section 47 – Forest offences (preview)
Section 48 – Penalties for breach of rules (preview)
Section 49 – Seizures of property liable to confiscation (preview)
Section 50 – Procedure thereupon (preview)
Section 51 – Power to release property seized under Section 49 (preview)
Section 52 – Tress, timber, forest produce, tools etc., when liable to confiscation (preview)
Section 53 – Disposal or conclusion of trial for forest offences of produce in respect of which it was committed (preview)
Section 54 – Procedure when offender not known or cannot be found (preview)
Section 55 – Procedure as to perishable property seized under Section 49 (preview)
Section 56 – Appeal from orders under Sections 52, 53 or 54 (preview)
Section 57 – Property when to vest in the State Government (preview)
Section 58 – Saving of power to release property seized (preview)
Section 59 – Penalty for counterfeiting or defacting marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary marks (preview)
Section 60 – Power to arrest without warrant (preview)
Section 61 – Power to prevent commission of offence (preview)
Section 62 – Power to compound offence (preview)
Section 63 – Presumption that forest produce belongs to vested forest (preview)
Section 64 – Application of Cattle Trespass Act (I of 1871) (preview)
Section 65 – Power to alter fines fixed under Cattle Trespass Act, 1871 (preview)
Section 66 – Forest Officers deemed public servants (preview)
Section 67 – Forest Officer not to trade (preview)
Section 68 – Bar of suits and other proceedings (preview)
Section 69 – Persons bound to assist Forest Officers and Police Officers (preview)
Section 70 – Management of groves and grove-lands (preview)
Section 71 – Application of the Act to groves (preview)
Section 72 – Recovery of money due to Government (preview)
Section 73 – Lien on forest produce for money due to Government (preview)
Section 74 – Recovery of penalties due under bond (preview)
Section 75 – Power to make rules (preview)
Section 76 – Savings (preview)

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