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68. Investiture of Forest Officers with certain powers.

(a) power to enter upon any land and to survey, demarcate, and make a map of the same ;
(b) the power of a Civil Court to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents ;
(c) power to issue search-warrants under the Code of Criminal Procedure,
(d) power to hold inquiries into forest offences, and in the course of such inquiries to receive and record evidence ;
(e) power to notify the reasons and manner in which fire may be kindled, kept or carried in a reserved forest;
(f) power to grant any permission referred to in Sections 26 and 36 ;
(g) power to notify stations for the receptions of drift timber ;
(h) power to give public notice of timber collected under Section 43 ;
(i) power to take possession of property under this Regulation ;
(j) power to direct the release of property or withdrawal of charges ; and may withdraw any power so conferred.