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Forest Act, 1927

Topic Serial #	Content	Case Law
	PREAMBLE
0	PREAMBLE
	CHAPTER I
	PRELIMINARY
1	Short title and extent
2	Interpretation clause	Case Law
	CHAPTER II
	OF RESERVED FORESTS
3	Powers to reserve forest
4	Notification by Provincial Government	Case Law
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 watercourses in reserved forests
26	Acts prohibited in such forests
26	26-A Removal of encroachments etc., from reserved forests
27	Power to declare forest no longer reserved
	CHAPTER III
	OF VILLAGE-FORESTS
28	Formation of village forests
	CHAPTER IV
	OF PROTECTED FORESTS
29	Protected forests	Case Law
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
33	33-A Power of Court to convict trespasser
34	Nothing in this Chapter to prohibit acts done in certain cases
	CHAPTER V