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Forest Act, 1927

Topic Serial #	Content	Case Law
	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
	OF THE DUTY ON TIMBER AND OTHER FOREST-PRODUCE
39	Power to impose duty on timber and other forest-produce	Case Law
40	Limit not to apply to purchase-money or royalty
	CHAPTER VII
	OF THE CONTROL OF TIMBER AND OTHER FOREST-PRODUCE IN TRANSIT
41	Power to make rules to regulate, transit of forest-produce	Case Law
41	41-A Powers of Federal Government as to movements of timber across Customs frontiers
42	Penalty for breach of rules made under section 41
43	Government 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 provided, 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
50	Payments to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him
51	Power to make rules and prescribe penalties
	CHAPTER IX
	PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE
52	Seizure of property liable to confiscation	Case Law
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	Case Law
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	Case Law
69	Presumption that forest-produce belongs to Government
	CHAPTER X