The Indian Forest Act 1878, 7 of 1878, (Rep., Act 16 of 1927)

Sections

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3. 1The Local Government may from time to time make rules to regulate the following matters (namely):
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5. 2In this Act, unless there be something repugnant in the subject or context,
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8. 4All timber or forest-produce which is not the property of Government and in respect of which a fores
9. 5When the trial of any forest-offence is concluded, any forest-produce in respect of which such offen
10. 6When the offender is not known, or cannot be found, the Magistrate may, if he finds that an offence
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12. 7When any such statement is presented as aforesaid, the Forest-officer may, after making such enquiry
13. 8If no such statement is presented as aforesaid, or if the claimant omits to prefer his claim in the
14. 9The Government shall not be responsible for any loss or damage which may occur in respect of any tim
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16. 10In the case of a claim to a right in or over any land, other than a right of way or pasture, or to f
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18. 12The Forest-Settlement-officer, when passing any order under section eleven, shall record, so far as may be practicable,
19. 13If the Forest-Settlement-officer admits in whole or in part any claim under section eleven, he shall
20. 14After making such record, the Forest-Settlement-officer shall, to the best of his ability, and havin
21. 15In case the Forest-Settlement-officer finds it impossible, having due regard to the maintenance of t
22. 16Any person who has made a claim under this Act, or any Forest-officer or other person generally or s
23. 17Every appeal under section sixteen shall be made by petition in writing, and may be delivered to the
24. 18The Local Government, or any person who has made a claim under this Act, may appoint any person to a
25. 19When the following events have occurred (namely),
26. 20Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood of forest
27. 21The Local Government may, within five years from the publication of any notification under section n
28. 22No right of any description shall be acquired in or over a reserved forest, except by succession or
29. 23Notwithstanding anything contained in section twenty-two, no right continued under section fourteen,
30. 24The Forest-officer may from time to time, with the previous sanction of the Local Government or of a
31. 25Any person who
32. 26The Local Government may, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, by notifica
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34. 27The Local Government may from time to time assign to any village-community the rights of Government
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36. 28The Local Government may from time to "Protected time, by notification in the local official Gazette, Forests."
37. 29Power to issue notification
38. 30The Collector or Deputy Commissioner of the district shall cause a translation into the language of
39. 31The Local Government may from time to time make rules to regulate the following matters:
40. 32Any person who commits any of the following offences:
41. 33Nothing
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43. 34Forests under conservancy-administration when this Act comes into force
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45. 35The Local Government may from time to time, by notification in the local official Gazette, regulate or prohibit in any forest or waste-land
46. 36In case of neglect of, or wilful disobedience to, any regulation or prohibition under section thirty
47. 37In any case under this chapter in which the Local Government considers that, in lieu of placing the
48. 38The owner of any land or, if there be more than one owner thereof, the owners of shares therein amou
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50. 39The Local Government, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, may levy a duty
51. 40Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to limit the amount (if any) chargeable as purchase-money or
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53. 42The Local Government may by such rules prescribe as penalties for the infringement thereof imprisonm
54. 43Government and Forest-officers not liable for damage to forest-produce at depôt
55. 44In case of any accident or emergency involving danger to any property at any such depot, every perso
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57. 45Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of Government until title thereto proved, and may be collected accordingly
58. 46Public notice shall from time to time be given by the Forest-officer, of timber collected under sect
59. 47Procedure on claim preferred to such timber
60. 48If no such statement is presented as aforesaid, or if the claimant omits to prefer his claim in the
61. 49The Government shall not be responsible for any loss or damage which may occur in respect of any tim
62. 50No person shall be entitled to recover possession of any timber collected or delivered as aforesaid
63. 51The Local Government may from time to time make rules to regulate the following matters (namely):
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65. 52When there is reason to believe that a forest-offence has been committed in respect of any forest-pr
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67. 54All timber or forest-produce which is not the property of Government and in respect of which a fores
68. 55Disposal, on conclusion of trial for forest-offence, of produce in respect of which it was committed
69. 56When the offender is not known, or cannot be found, the Magistrate may, if he finds that an offence
70. 57The Magistrate may, notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, direct the sale of any property
71. 58The officer who made the seizure under section fifty-two or any of his official superiors, or any pe
72. 59When an order for the confiscation of any property has been passed under section fifty-four or fifty
73. 60Nothing hereinbefore contained shall be deemed to prevent any officer empowered in this behalf by th
74. 61Any Forest-officer or Police-officer who vexatiously and unnecessarily seizes any property on preten
75. 62Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary-marks
76. 63Any Forest-officer or Police-officer may, without orders from a Magistrate and without a warrant, ar
77. 64Every Forest-officer and Police-officer shall prevent, and may interfere for the purpose of preventing, the commission of any forest-offence
78. 65The Magistrate of the District and any Magistrate of the first class specially empowered in this beh
79. 66Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to prevent any person from being prosecuted under any other law
80. 67The Local Government may from time to time, by notification in the local official Gazette, empower a
81. 68When in any proceedings taken under this Act, or in consequence of anything done under this Act, a q
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83. 69Cattle trespassing in a reserved forest or in any portion of a protected forest which has been lawfu
84. 70The Local Government may from time to time, by notification in the local official Gazette, direct th
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86. 71The Local Government may invest any Forest-officer by name, or as holding an office, with the following powers, that is to say:
87. 72All Forest-officers shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code
88. 73No suit shall lie against any public servant for anything done by him in good faith under this Act
89. 74Except with the permission in writing of the Local Government, no Forest-officer shall, as principal
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91. 75The Local Government may from time to time make rules
92. 76Any person breaking any rule under this Act, for the breach of which no special penalty is provided,
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95. 78Section 78
96. 79Section 79
97. 80Failure to perform service for which a share in produce of Government forest is enjoyed
98. 81All money payable to the Government under this Act, or under any rule made under this Act, or on acc
99. 82When any such money is payable for or in respect of any forest-produce, the amount thereof shall be
100. 83Land required under this Act to be deemed to be needed for a public purpose under Land Acquisition Act
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