GovernmeBt to or over any land which bas been constltuted a reserved forest 6 0 — TIIE INDIAN FORFST ACT, 1927

6 GovernmeBt to or over any land which bas been constltuted a reserved forest 6 0 [or called a protected forest,] and may cancel such 1.ssignmcnt. All forests so assigned shall be called village-forests. Bom. III iVt5lxiv 0 / 1961 · (Z) Tbe 1 [ 2 [Statc] Government] may" make rules for regulating the man,-..gement of village-forests, prescribing the conditions under wi1ich the community 7[ Panchayat or society] to which any such assignment is mRde may be provided with timber or other forest-produce or pasture, and their duties for the protection and impr'oTement of such forest. . All the provisions of tl1is Act relating to reserved 8 [or protected] forests shall (so far as they a1 c not inconsistent witl1 the rules so made) apply to vilL'lge-forests 9 [,i.ccording as the forests assigned are reserved or protected forests.] CHAPTERIV OF PROTECTED FORESTS Protectedforestr-(1) The 1[ 2[State] Government] may, by notiflcation f() [] ] yy The forest-land and waste-lands comprised in any such notification shall be called a "protected forest". No such notification sfodl be m?de unless tl:e m.ture and extent of the rights of Government and of private persons in or over the forest-land or waste-land comprisrd therein h2.ve been inquired into and recorded at a survey or settlement, or in such other manner ii.s the 1[ 2[State] Government] thinks sufficient. Every such record shall be presumed to be correct ~ntil the contrary is proved : Provided that if, in the ;:,.se of . any forest-land or waste-)<1.nd, the 1 [ 2 [State] Governmen~] thinks Lhit such inquiry and record are necess<1ry but that they will occupy such length of time .:s in the mean time to endanger the rights ot Government, the I [ 2[State] Gove1nment] may, pending such inquiry and reco1d, c.ecla1 · c such land to be a protected forest, but so as not to r.bridgc c,r affect any existing riihts of individuds or communities. Power to issue. e. notification reserving trees (a) declare any trees or class of trees in a protected forest to te rcservccl from a date fixed by t~e · notification ; '· The words ''Provincial Government" were sub,tituted for the words "Local Government" by the Government of India (Adaptation of Indian Laws) Order, 1937 .

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