THE INDIAN FOREST ACT, 1927 — TIIE INDIAN FORFST ACT, 1927

THE INDIAN FOREST ACT, 1927 CONTENTS ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY 1_ 2 Short title and extent Interpretation clause CHAPTER II OF RESERVED FORESTS 3_ 4. 5. 6. 7 . 8_ 9_ 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. Power to reserve forests Notification by State Government Bar of accrual of forest-rights Proclamation by Forest Settlement-officer Inquiry-by Forest Settlement-officer Powers of Forest Settlement-officers Extinction of rights Treatment of claims relating to practice of shifting cultivation Power to acquire land over which right is claimed Order on claims to rights of pasture Or to forest-produce Record to be made by Forest Settlement-officer Record where he admits claim Exercise of rights admitted Commutation of rights Appeal from order passed under section 11, section 12, section 15 o section 16 Appeal under section 17 Pleaders Notification declaring forest reserved Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood of forest Power to revise arrangement made under section 15 or section 18 No right acquired over reserved forest, except as here provided Rights not to be alienated without sanction Power to stop ways and water-courses in reserved forests Acts prohibited in such forests Power to declare forest no longer reserved CHAPTER III OF VILLAGE-FORESTS 28. Formation of village-forests CHAPTER IV OF PROTECTED FORESTS 29_ 30. 31. 32. 33. Protected forests Power to issue notification reserving trees, etc. Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood Power to make rules for protected forests Penalties for acts in contravention of notification under section 30 or of rules under section 32 Nothing in this Chapter to prohibit acts done in certain cases 34. CHAPTER V OF THE CONTROL OVER