| Sections | Indian Forest Act, 1927 |
| | Preamble |
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| | CHAPTER I: PRELIMINARY |
| 1. | Short title and extent |
| 2. | Interpretation clause |
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| | CHAPTER II: OF RESERVED FORESTS |
| 3. | Power to reserve forests |
| 4. | Notification by State Government |
| 5. | Bar of accrual of forest-rights |
| 6. | Proclamation by Forest Settlement-officer |
| 7. | Inquiry by Forest Settlement-officer |
| 8. | Powers of Forest Settlement-officers |
| 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 neighborhood 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 water-courses in reserved forests |
| 26. | Acts prohibited in such forests |
| 27. | Power to declare forest no longer reserved |
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| | CHAPTER III : OF VILLAGE-FORESTS |
| 28. | Formation of village-forests |
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| | CHAPTER IV : OF PROTECTED FORESTS |
| 29. | Protected forests |
| 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 |
| 34. | Nothing in this Chapter to prohibit acts done in certain cases |
| 35. | Saving for use of name, address or description of goods or services |
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| | CHAPTER V : OF THE CONTROL OVER FOREST AND LANDS NOT BEING THE PROPERTY OF GOVERNMENT |
| 36. | Power to assume management of forests |
| 37. | Expropriation of forests in certain cases |
| 38. | Protection of forests at request of owners |
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| | CHAPTER VI : OF THE DUTY ON TIMBER AND OTHER FOREST-PRODUCE |
| 39. | Power to impose duty on timber and other forest-produce |
| 40. | Limit not to apply to purchase-money or royalty |
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| | CHAPTER VII : OF THE CONTROL OF TIMBER AND OTHER FOREST-PRODUCE IN TRANSIT |
| 41. | Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest produce |
| 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 accidents at depot |
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| | CHAPTER VIII : OF THE COLLECTION OF DRIFT AND STRANDED TIMBER |
| 45. | Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of Government until title thereto proved, 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 |
| 51. | Power to make rules and prescribe penalties |
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| | CHAPTER IX : PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE |
| 52. | Seizure of property liable to confiscation |
| 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 siezed 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 |
| 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 |
| 69. | Presumption that forest-produce belongs to Government |
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| | CHAPTER X : CATTLE-TRESPASS |
| 70. | Cattle-trespass Act, 1871, to apply |
| 71. | Power to alter fines fixed under that Act |
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| | CHAPTER XI : OF FOREST-OFFICERS |
| 72. | State Government may invest Forest-officers with certain powers |
| 73. | Forest officers deemed public servants |
| 74. | Indemnity for acts done in good faith |
| 75. | Forest-officers not to trade |
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| | CHAPTER XII : SUBSIDIARY RULES |
| 76. | Additional powers to make rules |
| 77. | Penalties for breach of rules |
| 78. | Rules when to have force of law |
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| | CHAPTER XIII : MISCELLANEOUS |
| 79. | Persons bound to assist Forest-officers and Police-officers |
| 80. | Management of forests the joint property of Government and other persons |
| 81. | Failure to perform service for which a share in produce of Government forest is employed |
| 82. | Recovery of money due to Government |
| 83. | Lien on forest-produce for such money |
| 84. | Land required under this Act to be deemed to be needed for a public purpose under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 |
| 85. | Recovery of penalties due under bond |
| 85A. | Saving for rights of Central Government |
| 86. | Repeals |
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| | SCHEDULE |
