Assam Forest Regulation, 1891

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    "id": 13591,
    "slug": "assam-forest-regulation-1891-1891",
    "title": "Assam Forest Regulation, 1891",
    "short_title": "Assam Forest Regulation, 1891",
    "act_number": "(Regulation 7 of 1891)",
    "act_year": 1891,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Assam",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Assam Forest Regulation, 1891",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
    "sections": [
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Title, extent and commencement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "2.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 0
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Definitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) \"Forest Officer\" means any person appointed by name or as holding an office by or under the orders of the State Government to be Conservator, Deputy Conservator, Assistant Conservator, Forest Ranger, Deputy Ranger, Forester, Forest Guard or to discharge any function of a Forest Officer under this Regulation or any rules thereunder ;\n(2) \"tree\" includes palms, bamboos, stumps, brushwood and canes ;\n(3) \"timber\" means trees when they have fallen or have been felled or all wood, whether cut out or fashioned or hollowed out for any purpose or not and includes trees when cut into pieces or sizes or peeled out or sliced out (veneer) for manufacturing of plyboard, block board or any other purposes or not.\n(4) \"forest produce\" includes-\n(a) the following, whether found in, or brought from, a forest or not, that is to say-\ntimber, charcoal, caoutchouc, catechu, wood-oil, resin, natural varnish, bark, lac, myrabolams, and rhinoceros horns, and\n(b) the following when found in, or brought from, a forest that is to say-\n(i) trees and leaves, and fruits and all other parts or produce, not hereinbefore mentioned, of trees,\n(ii) plants not being trees, including grass creepers, reeds and moss, and all parts of produce of such plants,\n(iii) wild animals and skins (tusk and horns, other than rhinoceros horns), bones, silk, cocoons, honey and wax and all other parts or produce of animals, and\n(iv) peat, surface-oil, rock and minerals (including limestone, laterite, mineral oils and all products of mines or quarries);\n(5) \"Forest offence\" means an offence punishable under this regulation or any rule thereunder;\n(6) \"cattle\" includes also elephants., buffaloes, horses, mares, glidings, ponies, colt, fillies, mules, asses, pigs, rams, eves, sheep, lambs, goats and kids ;\n(7) \"river\" includes also streams, canals, creeks, and other channels natural or artificial;\n(8) \"land at the disposal of the Government\" means land in respect of which a person has acquired-\n(a) a permanent, heritable and transferable right of use/occupancy under any law for the time being in force, or\n(b) any right created by grant or lease made or continued by, or on behalf of, the Government, not being land vested in the Government for the purpose of the Central Government;\n(9) \"Magistrate\" means a Magistrate of the first or second class, and includes a Magistrate of the third class, when he is specially empowered by the State Government to try forest offences.\nChapter II\nReserved Forest",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 1
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Power to constitute reserved forest.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 2
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Notification by State Government of proposal to constitute a reserved forest.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) specifying as nearly as possible, the situation and limits of such land ;\n(b) declaring that it is proposed to constitute such land a reserved forest; and\n(c) appointing an officer (hereinafter called the Forest Settlement Officer), to enquire into and determine the existence, nature and extent of any rights claimed by, or alleged to exist in favour of, any person in or over any land comprised within such limits, and any claims relating to the practice with such limits, of jhum cultivation, and to deal with the same as provided in this Chapter.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Proclamation by Forest Settlement Officer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) specifying, as nearly as possible, the situation and limits of the proposed forest;\n(b) setting forth the substance of the provisions of the next following section;\n(c) explaining the consequence which, as hereinafter provided, will ensue on the reservation of such forest; and\n(d) fixing a period of not less than three months from the date of the publication of such proclamation and requiring every person claiming any right or making any claim referred to or mentioned in Section 5 either to present to such officer within such period a written notice specifying or to appear before him within such period and state the nature of such right or claim.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Bar of accrual of forest rights after proclamation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Inquiry by Forest Settlement Officer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Powers of Forest Settlement Officer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) power to enter, by himself or any officer authorised by him for the purpose, upon any land, and to survey, demarcate and make a map of the same ; and\n(b) the powers of a Civil Court in the trial of suits.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Treatment of claims relating to practice of jhum cultivation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by altering the limits of the land under settlement so as to exclude land of sufficient extent, of a suitable kind, and in a locality' reasonably convenient for the purposes of the claimants, or\n(b) by causing certain portions of the land under settlement to be separately demarcated and giving permission to the claimants to practice jhum cultivation therein under such conditions as he may prescribe.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Power to acquire land over which right is claimed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a right-of-way,\n(b) a right to water-course or to use of water,\n(c) a right of pasture or to forest-produce,\n(x) come to an agreement with the claimant for surrender of the right, or\n(y) exclude the land from the limits of proposed forest, or\n(z) proceed to acquire such land in the manner provided by the Land Acquisition Act, 1870.\n(i) the Forest Settlement Officer shall be deemed to be a Collector proceeding under the Land Acquisition Act, 1870 ;\n(ii) the claimant shall be deemed to be a person interested and appearing before him in pursuance of a notice given under Section 9 of that Act;\n(iii) the provisions of the preceding sections of that Act shall be deemed to have been complied with ; and\n(iv) the Collector, with the consent of the claimant, may award compensation in land, or in money, or partly in land and partly in money. J",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Order on claim to right-of way, water-course or pasture, or to forest produce.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Provisions for right of pasture or to forest produce admitted.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by altering the limits of the proposed reserved forest so as to exclude land of sufficient extent of a suitable kind and in a locality reasonably convenient for the purpose of the claimant; or\n(b) by recording an order containing of the claimant a right of pasture or to forest produce, as the case may be, subject to such rules as may be prescribed by the State Government.\n(i) where the right is a right of pasture, the number and description of the cattle which the claimant is, from time to time, entitled to graze, and the local limits within which, and the seasons during which such pasture is permitted ; and\n(ii) where the right is a right to forest produce, the quantity of such produce which the claimant is authorised to take or receive, and the local limits within which, the seasons during which, and the mode in which, the taking or receiving of such produce is permitted ; and\n(iii) whether the right is a right of pasture, or to forest produce, such other particulars as may be required in order to define the extent of the right which is contained, the mode in which it may be exercised and the extent to which the benefit thereof may be leased, sold or bartered.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Commutation of such rights.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Appeal from order passed under foregoing sections.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Appeals under the last foregoing section.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Notification declaring forest reserve.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the period fixed under Section 6 for preferring claims has elapsed, and all claims, if any, made within such period has been disposed of by the Forest Settlement Officer ; and\n(b) if such claims have been made, the period fixed by Section 15 for appealing from the orders passed on such claims has elapsed, and all appeals, if any, presented within such period have been disposed of by the appellate officer ; and\n(c) all lands, if any, to be included in the proposed reserved forest which the Forest Settlement Officer has under Section 11, elected to acquire under the Land Acquisition Act, 1870, have become vested in the Government under Land Acquisition Act, 1870 (10 of 1870);",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Extinction of rights not claimed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Publication of translation of such notification on neighbourhood of forest.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "20. Power to revise arrangement made under Section 13 or 16.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Acquisition of right over reserved forests.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Alienation of right in reserved forests.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Power to stop ways and water courses in reserved forests.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Penalties for trespass or damage in reserved forests.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) trespasses, or pastures cattle, or permits cattle to trespass, or\n(b) causes any damage by negligence in felling any tree or cutting or dragging any timber.\n(c) [ Deleted ],",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 22
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Acts prohibited in such forests.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) makes any fresh clearing prohibited by Section 7, or\n(b) sets fire to a reserved forest, or in contravention of any rules by the State Government kindles any fire, or leaves fire burning, in such manner as to endanger such a forest,\n(c) kindles, keeps or carries any fire except at such seasons and in such smanner as Forest Officer specially empowered in this behalf may from time to time notify, or\n(d) fells, cuts, girdles, marks, lops, tops, or injures by the fire or otherwise any tree, or\n(e) quarries stone, bums lime or charcoal or collects, subject to any manufacturing process or removes any forest produces, or\n(f) clears or breakes up any land for cultivation or any other purpose, or\n(g) poisons water or, in contravention of any rules made by the State Government hunts, fishes or sets traps or snares,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Acts excepted from Sections 24 and 25.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) any practice of jhum cultivation permitted under Section 10, or\n(b) the exercise in accordance with the rules, if any, made by the State Government under Section 13 of any right continued under that section, or\n(c) the exercise of any right created by grant or contract in the manner described in Section 21, or\n(d) any act done with permission in writing of a Forest official specially empowered to grant such permission.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Penalty for offences committed by persons having rights in reserved forest.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Power to declare forests no longer reserved.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter III\nVillage Forests",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 26
        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Constitution of village forests.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 27
        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Power to make rules for village forests.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 28
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Inquiry into and settlement of rights.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter IV\nGeneral Protection of Forest and Forest Produce",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 29
        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Reserved trees in unsettled tracts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) declare that any trees or any specified class of tress standing on any land at the disposal of the Government shall, from a date to be fixed by such notification, be reserved trees ;\n(b) vary or cancel any such notification.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Protection of settled forest belonging to the Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 31
        },
        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Protection of unsettled forests belonging to the Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) regulate or prohibit the cutting of jhums or the issue of grants or leases on behalf of the Government;\n(b) regulate or prohibit the kindling of fires, and prescribe the precautions to be taken to prevent the spreading of fires ;\n(c) regulate or prohibit the felling, cutting, girdling, marking, lopping, tapping or injuring by fire or otherwise of any trees, the sawing, conversion and removal of timber, and the collection and removal of other forest produce;\n(d) regulate or prohibit the quarrying of stone, the boiling of catechu or the burning of lime or charcoal;\n(e) regulate or prohibit the cutting of grass and pasturing of cattle, and regulate the payments, if any, to be made - for such cutting or pasturing;\n(f) prohibit the poisoning of water, and regulate or prohibit hunting, shooting and fishing, and the setting of traps or snares ;\n(g) regulate the sale or free grant of forest produce; and\n(h) prescribe, or authorise any Forest Officer to prescribe, subject to the control of the State Government the fees, royalties or other payments for forest produce, and the manner in which such fees, royalties or other payments are to be levied, in transit, or partly in transit or otherwise.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 32
        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Penalties.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 33
        },
        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Nothing in this Chapter to probit acts done in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter IV-A\nOf The Control over Forests and Waste land not being The Property of Government",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 34
        },
        {
            "number": "36A",
            "title": "36A. Protection of forests for special purposes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the breaking up or clearing of land ;\n(b) the pasturing of cattle ; or\n(c) the firing or clearing of the vegetation ;\n(i) for protection against storms, winds, rolling stones, floods and avalanches;\n(ii) for the preservation of the soil on the ridges and slopes and in the valleys of hilly tracts, the prevention of landslips or of the formation of ravines and torrents, deposit thereon of sand, stones or gravel;\n(iii) for the maintenance of a water-supply in springs, rivers and tanks ;\n(iv) for the protection of public roads, public bridges, railways and other lines of communication;\n(v) for the preservation of the public health.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 35
        },
        {
            "number": "36B",
            "title": "36B. Power to assume management of forest.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 36
        },
        {
            "number": "36C",
            "title": "36C. Expropriation of forests in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 37
        },
        {
            "number": "36D",
            "title": "36D. Protection of forests at the request of owners.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) that such land be managed on their behalf by the Forest Officer on such terms as may be mutually agreed upon ; or\n(b) that all or any of the provisions of this Regulation be applied to such land.\nChapter V\nDuty on Imported Forest Produce",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 38
        },
        {
            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Power to impose duty on forest produce.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 39
        },
        {
            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Power to exempt forest produce from duty.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "39",
            "title": "39. Provisions of Chapter not to limit purchase money or royalty.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VI\nControl of Forest Produce in Transit",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 41
        },
        {
            "number": "40",
            "title": "40. Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest produce.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) prescribe the routes by which alone forest produce may be imported into, exported from or moved within the territories to which this Regulation extends ;\n(b) prohibit the import, export, collection or moving of forest produce without a pass from an officer authorised to issue the same, or otherwise than in accordance with the conditions of such pass ;\n(c) provide for the issue, production and return of such passes ;\n(d) fix, or authorise any Forest Officer, subject to control of the State Government, to fix the fees payable for such passes ;\n(e) in the case of timber formed into a raft or fastened to the shore, prohibit the loosening of the setting a drift of such timber by any person not the owner thereof or not acting on behalf of such owner of the Government;\n(f) provide for the stoppage, reporting examination and making of forest produce in transit in respect of which there is reason to believe that any money is payable to the Government or which is desirable for the purposes of this Regulation, to affix a mark ;\n(g) establish revenue-stations to which forest produce is to be taken by the persons in charge of it for examination, or for the realisation of such money, or in order that such mark may be affixed to it, and prescribe, or authorise, a Forest Officer, subject to such control as aforesaid, to prescribe the conditions under which forest produce is to be brought to, stored at and removed from such revenue-station ;\n(h) provide for the management and control of such revenue stations, and for regulating the appointment and duties of persons employed thereat ;\n(i) authorise the transport of timber across any land, and provide for the award and payment of compensation for any damage done by the transport of such timber ;\n(j) prohibit the closing up or obstruction of the channel or banks or any river used for the transit of forest produce and the throwing of grass, brushwood branches or leaves into any such river, or any other act which tends to cause the obstruction of such channel;\n(k) provide for the prevention and removal of any obstruction in the channel or on the banks of any such river and for recovering the cost of such prevention or removal from the person causing such obstruction ;\n(l) prohibit absolutely or subject to conditions and rules, within specified local limits, the establishment of saw mills, saw pits, veneer mills, plywood factories and any kind of forest based industries for the purpose of conversion, manufacturing, peeling, slicing, cutting, burning, concealing, marking or supermaking the timber, altering or effecting any of the marks on the same and possession or carrying of marking hammers or other implements, used for making timber ; and\n(m) regulate the use of property-marks for timber and the registration of such marks, authorise the refusal of cancellation of the registration of any property-marks, prescribe the time for which the registration of property-marks hold good, limit the number of such marks which may be registered by any one person, and provide for the levy of fees for such registration.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 42
        },
        {
            "number": "40A",
            "title": "40A. Powers of Central Government as to movement of timber across customs frontiers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 43
        },
        {
            "number": "41",
            "title": "41. Penalties for breach of rules under last foregoing section.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 44
        },
        {
            "number": "42",
            "title": "42. All persons bound to aid in case of accident at revenue station.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VII\nCollection of Drift Stranded and other Timber",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 45
        },
        {
            "number": "43",
            "title": "43. Certain kinds of timber to be deemed to be the property of the State Government until title thereto proved.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) timber found a drift, breached, stranded or sunk,\n(b) timber bearing marks which have not been registered under rules made under Section 40,\n(c) timber which has been supermarked, or on which marks have been obliterated, altered or defaced by fire or otherwise, and\n(d) in such area as the State Government directs, all unmarked timber,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 46
        },
        {
            "number": "44",
            "title": "44. Notice to claimants of timber of those kinds.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 47
        },
        {
            "number": "45",
            "title": "45. Procedure on claim preferred to such timber.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 48
        },
        {
            "number": "46",
            "title": "46. Disposal of unclaimed timber.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 49
        },
        {
            "number": "47",
            "title": "47. Payment to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 50
        },
        {
            "number": "48",
            "title": "48. Power to make rules and prescribe penalties.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the salving, collection and disposal of all timber mentioned in Section 43;\n(b) the use and registration of boats used in salving and collecting limber;\n(c) the amount to be paid for salving, collecting, moving, storing and disposing of such timber; and\n(d) the use and registration of hammers and other implements to be used for making such timber.\nChapter VIII\nPenalties and Procedure",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 51
        },
        {
            "number": "49",
            "title": "49. Seizure of property liable to confiscation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) sends an intimation in the prescribed form about the initiation of the proceeding for confiscation of property to the Magistrate having jurisdiction to try the offence on account of which the seizure has been made;\n(b) issue a notice in writing to the person from whom the property is seized, and to any other person who may appear to the authorised officer to have some interest in such property and in cases of motorised boats, vessels, vehicles, trucks, etc., having a registered number to the registered owner thereof;\n(c) affords to the persons referred to in Clause (b) above a reasonable opportunity of making a representation within such reasonable time as may be specified in the notice, against the proposed confiscation; and\n(d) gives to the officer effecting the seizure and the person or persons referred to in Clause (b) or (c) above, a reasonable opportunity of being heard on a date or dates to be fixed for the purpose.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 52
        },
        {
            "number": "49",
            "title": "49A. Power to release property seized under Section 49.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 53
        },
        {
            "number": "49B",
            "title": "49B. Review.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 54
        },
        {
            "number": "49C",
            "title": "49C. Appeals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 55
        },
        {
            "number": "50",
            "title": "50. Procedure on receipt by Magistrate of report of seizure.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
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            "number": "51",
            "title": "51. Forest produce, tools, etc. when liable to confiscation.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "52",
            "title": "52. Disposal on conclusion of trial for forest-offence of produce in respect of which it was committed.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "53",
            "title": "53. Procedure when offender is not known or cannot be found.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "49",
            "title": "54. Procedure as to perishable property seized under Section 49.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "55",
            "title": "55. Appeal from orders under Sections 51, 52 and 53.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "56",
            "title": "56. Vesting of confiscated property in State Government.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 62
        },
        {
            "number": "57",
            "title": "57. Saving of power to release properties seized.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 63
        },
        {
            "number": "58",
            "title": "58. Punishment for wrongful seizure.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "59",
            "title": "59. Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on tress and timber and for altering boundary marks.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) knowingly counterfeits upon any tree or timber a mark used by Forest Officers to indicate that such tree or timber is the property of the Government or of some person, or that it may lawfully be felled or removed by some person, or\n(b) unlawfully affixes to any tree or timber a mark used by Forest Officers, or\n(c) alters, defaces or obliterates any such mark placed on any tree or timber, by or under the authority of a Forest Officer, or\n(d) alters, moves, destroys or defaces any boundary marks of any forest or waste land to which any provisions of this Regulation apply,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 65
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        {
            "number": "60",
            "title": "60. Power to arrest without warrant.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 66
        },
        {
            "number": "61",
            "title": "61. Power to prevent commission of offence.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 67
        },
        {
            "number": "62",
            "title": "62. Power to compound offences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to accept from any person against whom a reasonable suspicion exists that he has committed any forest offence, other than an offence specified in Section 58 or Section 59 a sum of money by way of compensation for the offence which such person is suspected to have committed, and\n(b) when any property has been seized as liable to confiscation, to release the same on payment of the value thereof as estimated by such officer.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 68
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        {
            "number": "63",
            "title": "63. Presumption that forest produce belongs to Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 69
        },
        {
            "number": "64",
            "title": "64. Compensation for damage caused by commission of offences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 70
        },
        {
            "number": "65",
            "title": "65. Forfeiture of leases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter IX\nCattle Trespass",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 71
        },
        {
            "number": "66",
            "title": "66. Cattle Trespass Act, 1871 to apply.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 72
        },
        {
            "number": "67",
            "title": "67. Power to alter fines fixed by the Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Rs.\na.\nP.\nFor each elephant\n10\n0\n0\nFor each buffalo\n2\n0\n0\nFor each horse, mare, gelding, pony, colt, filly, mule, bull,\n\t\t\t\tbullock, cow or heifer\n1\n0\n0\nFor each calf, ass, pig, rams, ewe-sheep, lamb, goat or kid\n0\n8\n0\nChapter X\nForest Officers",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 73
        },
        {
            "number": "68",
            "title": "68. Investiture of Forest Officers with certain powers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) power to enter upon any land and to survey, demarcate, and make a map of the same ;\n(b) the power of a Civil Court to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents ;\n(c) power to issue search-warrants under the Code of Criminal Procedure,\n(d) power to hold inquiries into forest offences, and in the course of such inquiries to receive and record evidence ;\n(e) power to notify the reasons and manner in which fire may be kindled, kept or carried in a reserved forest;\n(f) power to grant any permission referred to in Sections 26 and 36 ;\n(g) power to notify stations for the receptions of drift timber ;\n(h) power to give public notice of timber collected under Section 43 ;\n(i) power to take possession of property under this Regulation ;\n(j) power to direct the release of property or withdrawal of charges ; and may withdraw any power so conferred.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 74
        },
        {
            "number": "69",
            "title": "69. Forest Officers deemed to be public servants.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 75
        },
        {
            "number": "70",
            "title": "70. Indemnity for acts done in* good faith.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 76
        },
        {
            "number": "71",
            "title": "71. Forest Officers not to trade.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XI\nSupplemental Provisions",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 77
        },
        {
            "number": "72",
            "title": "72. Additional powers to make rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to declare by what Forest Officer or Class of Forest Officers the powers or duties conferred or imposed by or under this Regulation on a Forest Officer are to be exercised or performed ;\n(b) to regulate procedure of Forest Settlement Officers ;\n(c) to provide for ejectment of any person who has entered into unauthorised occupation in a forest reserve and for the disposal of any crops raised, or any building or other construction erected without authority in forest reserves ;\nNo Civil Court shall exercise jurisdiction-in any matter provided for by the rules made under this clause ;\n(d) to regulate the rewards to be paid to officers and informers ; and\n(e) generally, to carry out the provisions of this Regulation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 78
        },
        {
            "number": "73",
            "title": "73. Rules when to have force of law.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 79
        },
        {
            "number": "74",
            "title": "74. Persons bound to assist honest Forest Officer and Police Officer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in extinguishing any fire occurring in such forest;\n(b) in preventing any fire which may occur in the vicinity of such forest from spreading to such forest;\n(c) in preventing the commission in such forest of any forest offence ; and\n(d) when there is reason to believe that any such offence has been committed in such forest, in discovering and arresting the offender.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 80
        },
        {
            "number": "75",
            "title": "75. Recovery of money due to the Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 81
        },
        {
            "number": "76",
            "title": "76. Lien on forest produce for such money.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 82
        },
        {
            "number": "77",
            "title": "77. Government and its officers not liable for loss or damage in respect of certain forest produce.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 83
        },
        {
            "number": "78",
            "title": "78. Land required under this Regulation to be deemed to be needed for public purpose.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 84
        },
        {
            "number": "79",
            "title": "79. Recovery of penalties due under bond.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 12th February, 2020 [ass259]",
        "Act Number": "(Regulation 7 of 1891)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1891",
        "Short Title": "Assam Forest Regulation, 1891",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
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    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:18"
}