Section 29. Protected forests

CHAPTER IV OF PROTECTED FORESTS 29. Protected forests. —(1) The[1] [State Government] may, by notification in the[3] [Official Gazette], declare the provisions of this Chapter applicable to any forest-land or waste-land which is not included in 1. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "Provincial Government". 2. The words "subject to the control of the G.G. in C." rep. by the A.O. 1937 3. Subs., ibid , for "Local Official Gazette". a reserved forest, but which is the property of Government, or over which the Government has proprietary rights, or to the whole or any part of the forests produce of which the Government is entitled. (2) The forest-land and waste-lands comprised in any such notification shall be called a "protected forests". (3) No such notification shall be made unless the nature and extent of the rights of Government and of private persons in or over the forest-land or waste-land comprised therein have been inquired into and recorded at a survey or settlement, or in such other manner as the[1] [State Government] thinks sufficient. Every such record shall be presumed to be correct until the contrary is proved: Provided that, if, in the case of any forest-land or waste-land, the[1] [State Government] thinks that such inquiry and record are necessary, but that they will occupy such length of time as in the mean time to endanger the rights of Government, the[1] [State Government] may, pending such inquiry and record, declare such land to be a protected forest, but so as not to abridge or affect any existing rights of individuals or communities.