Section 5
(1) Subject to such rules as may be made in this behalf, the Government may take such measures as they consider necessary or expedient for the purpose of securing, administering, preserving and managing any private forest, the management of such has been taken over under section 3.
5. (1) Subject to such rules as may be made in this behalf, the Government may take such measures as they consider necessary or expedient for the purpose of securing, administering, preserving and managing any private forest, the management of such has been taken over under section 3.
Without prejudice to the generality of the provision contained in sub -section (1), such powers shall include the power
to cut and remove trees in the private forest:
to sell by auction or otherwise the timber and other forest produce:
to enter into contracts for cutting and removing trees:
to carry on cultivation:
to improve the private forest by planting or otherwise; and
to prevent trespass and unauthorised removal of any forest produce in the private forest or to prevent the commission of any act of waste in the private forest.
(1) On the expiration of the period specified in the notification under sub -section (2) of section 3, or earlier if the Government consider that it is no longer necessary to continue in management of the private forest taken over under section 3, the Government shall release from their management the private forest in as good a condition as it was when 3 and shall restore the private forest in as good a condition as it was when possession thereof was" taken subject only to the changes caused in the ordinary course of management or husbandry and by irresistible force.
Where any private forest is to be released form management by the Government, the Government shall, after making an enquiry in the prescribed manner, by notification, specify the date on which and the person to whom possession of such private forest shall be given;
Provided that no notification under this sub -section specifying any person other than the person from whom possession of the private forest was taken shall be published unless notice has been given to owner of the private forest, or if he is dead, to his heirs or legal representatives and his or their representations, if any, have been considered by the Government.
On the date specified in the notification
under sub -section (2) possession of the private forest shall be deemed to have been given by the Government.
The delivery of possession of the private forest to the person specified in the notification under sub-section (2) shall be a full discharge of the Government from all liability in respect of the private forest, which any other person may be entitled by due process of law, enforce against the person to whom possession the private forest is given.