Act 13 of 1953

Preamble

RAJASTHAN FOREST ACT, 1953 Rajasthan Act No. 13 of 1953 [31st March, 1953] An Act to consolidate the law relating to forests the transit of forest produce and the duty leviable on timber and other forest produce. Be it enacted by the Rajasthan State Legislature as follows: [Received the assent of the President on 31st of March, 1953, published in the Rajasthan Gazette No. 10 Part. IV A, dated the 18th April, 1953] Chapter-I Preliminary diaCode

Sections

Type to filter. 87 sections.

1. 1Short Title, Extent and Commencement
2. 2Definitions
3. 3Power to reserve forest
4. 4Notification by [State Government]
5. 5Bar of accrual of forest rights
6. 6Proclamation by Forest Settlement Officer
7. 7Inquiry by Forest Settlement Officer
8. 8Powers of Forest Settlement Officer
9. 9Extinction of rights
10. 10Treatment of claims relating to practice of shifting cultivation
11. 11Power to acquire land over which right is claimed
12. 12Claims to rights of way, water-course, pasture, and to forest produce
13. 13Record to be made by Forest Settlement Officer
14. 14Record where he admits claims
15. 15Exercise of right admitted
16. 16Commutation of rights
17. 17Appeal from order passed under Section 11, Section 12, Section 15 or Section 16
18. 18Appeal under Section 17
19. 19Pleaders
20. 20Notification declaring forest reserved
21. 21Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood
22. 22Power to revise arrangements made under Section 15 or Section 18
23. 23No right acquired over reserved forest, except as here provided
24. 24Rights not to be alienated without sanction
25. 25Power to stop ways and water courses in reserved forests
26. 26Acts prohibited in such forests
27. 27Power to declare forest no longer reserved
28. 28Formation of village forests
29. 29Protected Forests
30. 30Power to issue notification reserving trees etc
31. 31Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood
32. 32Power to make rules for protected forest
33. 33
34. 34
35. 35Protection of forest for special purposes
36. 36Power to assume management of forest
37. 37Expropriation of forests in certain cases
38. 38Protection of forest at request of owners
39. 39Power to impose duty on timber and other forest produce
40. 40Duty not to affect purchase money or royalty
41. 41Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest produce
42. 42Penalty for breach of rules made under Section 41
43. 43
44. 44All persons bound to aid in case of accident at Depot
45. 45
46. 46Notice to claimants of drift timber
47. 47Procedure on claim preferred to such timber
48. 48Disposal of unclaimed timber
49. 49
50. 50Payments to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him
51. 51Power to make rules and prescribe penalties
52. 52BRevision before Court of Sessions against order of Appellate Authority
53. 52C
54. 54
55. 55Forest Produce, tools, etc., when liable to confiscation
56. 56
57. 57Procedure when offender not known or cannot be found
58. 58Procedure as to perishable property seized under Section 52
59. 59Appeal from order under Section 55, Section 56 or Section 57
60. 60Property when to vest in [State [State Government]
61. 61Saving of power to release property seized
62. 62Punishment for wrongful seizure
63. 63
64. 64Power to arrest without warrant
65. 65Power to release on a bond a person arrested
66. 66Power to prevent commission of offence
67. 68Power to compound offence
68. 69Presumption that forest produce belongs to [State Government]
69. 70Cattle Trespass Act to apply
70. 71
71. 72
72. 73Forest Officers deemed public servants
73. 74Indemnity for acts done in good faith
74. 75Forest Officers not to trade
75. 76Additional powers to make rules
76. 77Penalties for breach of rules
77. 78Rules when to have force of law
78. 79Person bound to assist Forest Officer and Police Officers
79. 80Management of Forests the joint property of [State Government] and other persons
80. 81
81. 82Recovery of money due to [State Government]
82. 83Lien on forest produce for such money
83. 84
84. 85Recovery of penalties due under bond
85. 86Power to exempt
86. 87Act and to affect or impair certain rights of Rules
87. 88

Rules made under this Act

12 sets of Rules. India Code publishes Rules as a record and a document rather than as text, so these are indexed here and not reproduced. All Rules.

• Notification regarding compounding of forest offence 20252025
• Rajasthan Forest (Produce Transit)(Amendment)Rules, 20232022
• The Rajasthan State Forest (Form of appeal) Rules, 20132013
• F. 2 (20)Rev. Gr./8 /79 jaipur dated 26.10.1986 empowered Forest Officers to compound offence1986
• F.23(16) Rev.8/76 jaipur dated 5.08.1978 NH strips as Protected Forest notified by Govt.1978
• Rajasthan Protected Forest (Exercise of Concessions) Rules, 19601961
• Rajasthan Reserved Forest (Exercise of concessions) Rules, 19601961
• Rajasthan Reserved Forests (Exercise of Rights) Rules, 19601961
• The Rajasthan Protected Forest(Exercise of Rights) Rules,19601961
• The Protected Forest Rules, 19571958
• The Rajasthan Forest (Settlement) Rules, 19581958
• The Reserved Forest Rules, 19571958

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