The Indian Forest Act, 1927
| Coming into Force | 21 September 1927 |
| Date | 21 September 1927 |
| Act Number | 16 |
| Record Number | 192716 |
| Enactment Date | 21 September 1927 |
| Court | Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change |
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THE INDIAN FOREST ACT, 1927
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIO NS
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CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
SECTIONS
1. Short title and extent.
2. Interpretation clause.
CHAPTER II
OF RESERVED FORESTS
3. Power to reserve forests.
4. Notification by State Government.
5. Bar of accrual of forest-rights.
6. Proclamation by Forest Settlement-officer.
7. Inquiry by Forest Settlement-officer.
8. Powers of Forest Settlement-officer.
9. Extinction of rights.
10. Treatment of claims relating to practice of shifting cultivation.
11. Power to acquire land over which right is claimed.
12. Order on claims to rights of pasture or to forest-produce.
13. Record to be made by Forest Settlement-officer.
14. Record where he admits claim.
15. Exercise of rights admitted.
16. Commutation of rights.
17. Appeal from order passed under section 11, section 12, section 15 or section 16.
18. Appeal under section 17.
19. Pleaders.
20. Notification declaring forest reserved.
21. Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood of forest.
22. Power to revise arrangement made under section 15 or section 18.
23. No right acquired over reserved forest, except as here provided.
24. Rights not to be alienated without sanction.
25. Power to stop ways and water-courses in reserved forests.
26. Acts prohibited in such forests.
27. Power to declare forest no longer reserved.
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CHAPTER III
OF VILLAGE-FORESTS
SECTIONS
28. Formation of village-forests.
CHAPTER IV
OF PROTECTED FORESTS
29. Protected forests.
30. Power to issue notification reserving trees, etc.
31. Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood.
32. Power to make rules for protected forests.
33. Penalties for acts in contravention of notification under section 30 or of rules under section 32.
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.
36. Power to assume management of forests.
37. Expropriation of forests in certain cases.
38. Protection of forests at request of owners.
CHAPTER VI
OFTHE DUTY ON TIMBER AND OTHER FOREST-PRODUCE
39. Power to impose duty on timber and other forest-produce.
40. Limit not to apply to purchase-money or royalty.
CHAPTER VII
OFTHE CONTROL OF TIMBER AND OTHER FOREST-PRODUCE IN TRANSIT
41. Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest-produce.
41A. Powers of Central Government as to movements of timber across customs frontiers.
42. Penalty for breach of rules made under section 41.
43. Governments and Forest-officers not liable for damage to forest-produce at depot.
44. All persons bound to aid in case of accident at depot.
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.
46. Notice to claimants of drift-timber.
47. Procedure on claim preferred to such timber.
48. Disposal of unclaimed timber.
49. Government and its officers not liable for damage to such timber.
50. Payments to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him.
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SECTIONS
51. Power to make rules and prescribe penalties.
CHAPTER IX
PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE
52. Seizure of property liable to confiscation.
53. Power to release property seized under section 52.
54. Procedure thereupon.
55. Forest-produce, tools, etc., when liable to confiscation.
56. Disposal, on conclusion of trial for forest-offence, of produce in respect of which it was
committed.
57. Procedure when offender not known, or cannot be found.
58. Procedure as to perishable property seized under section 52.
59. Appeal from orders under section .55, section 56 or section 57.
60. Property when to vest in Government.
61. Saving of power to release property seized.
62. Punishment for wrongful seizure.
63. Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary-marks.
64. Power to arrest without warrant.
65. Power to release on a bond a person arrested.
66. Power to prevent commission of offence.
67. Power to try offences summarily.
68. Power to compound offences.
69. Presumption that forest-produce belongs to Government.
CHAPTER X
CATTLE-TRESPASS
70. Cattle-trespass Act, 1871, to apply.
71. Power to alter fines fixed under that Act.
CHAPTER XI
OF FOREST-OFFICERS
72. State Government may invest Forest-officers with certain powers.
73. Forest-officers deemed public servants.
74. Indemnity for acts done in good faith.
75. Forest-officers not to trade.
CHAPTER XII
SUBSIDIARY RULES
76. Additional powers to make rules.
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