{
    "act_title": "Forest Rules",
    "act_slug": "forest-rules",
    "section_label": "Section",
    "section": {
        "number": "15",
        "title": "15. A licence may be cancelled at any time by the officer granting it, or by the Conser",
        "chapter": null,
        "content": "16.\nNote. - Sections 26(1)(i) and 33(1)(h) of the Forest Act prescribe penalties for breach of these rules and section 68 of that Act empowers the Divisional Forest Officer to compound any such breach on payment of a sum of money.\nNote.\nBig Game Licence\nForest Department, Punjab\nForest Department, Punjab\nNo.\nof\nLicence issued under rules made by Government notification No.\n(Forests)\ndated\n(Signature)\nNote.\n(To be filled in by licence-holder)\n(Signature)\nReverse\n(Conditions under which this licence is issued)\nNote . - If any forest or shooting rule has been infringed, this is to be stated on the margin.\n(1)\nTiger\n......\nFelis tigris.\n(2)\nLeopard\n.....\nFelis pardusr\n(3)\nSambhar (cervus unicolor)\n.....\nRusa unicolor\n(4)\nChital (cervus axix)\n.....\nAxis axis\n(5)\nBarking Deer or Kakar (cervulus muntjac)\n.....\nMuntiacus muntjak\n(6)\nGoral (Cemus goral)\n.....\nMemorhaeus goral\n(7)\nPig\n.....\n[Rules to regulate the hunting and shooting of and the setting of traps and snares for the capture of Small Games in the Punjab under Clause (j) of Section 32 and Clause (d) of Section 76 of the Indian Forest Act, 1927.]\nSerial No.\nScientific name\nEnglish name\nVernacular name\nPeriod during which\n\t\t\t\t\tthe shooting of game under licence is permitted\n1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n1.\nCrocopus Phoenicopeterus\nThe Green Pigeon\nKandeil, harrial kokla, latta, nilsar guggu, guya\n2.\nSphenocercus sphenrus\nThe Wedge tailed Green Pigeon\n3.\nColumba livia\nThe Blue Rock Pigeon\nKabutar\n15th September to 15th March\n4.\nColumba rupestris\nThe Blue Hill Pigeon\n5.\nColumba penas\nThe Eastern Stock Pigeon or Dove\nSalara kabutar Kamarkular\n6.\nColumba leuconota\nThe while bellied or Snow Pigeon\nBhusli, bujul, Ahujriapia, charan, luku\n7.\nDendrotreren hodgsonnii\nThe Speckled Wood Pigeon\nKamlowa, Chittal\n8.\nStreptopetia\nRefous Turtle Dove\nKamlowa, Chittal Kabutar Kabutar, Laber\n9.\nColumba palumbus\nThe Eastern Wood Pigeon or Ring dove\nDhond, Kabutor\n15th September to 15th March\n10.\nStreptopelia Chineusis\nThe Indian Spotted dove\nGhugi, fakhta tottru, chhota fakhta\n11.\nStreptopelia decaocto\nThe Indian Ring dove\nGhuggu, fakhta, ghaggil, panduk, geyrra\n12.\nPavo oristasus\nThe Common Peafowl\nMor, manjha bodar\n15th September to 1st March\n13.\nGullus bankiva\nThe Common Red Jungle fowl\nJangli murghi ban kukar kukar\n14.\nCatreus wallichit\nThe Chir Pheasant\nChir chrihi cheman chair\n15.\nCereornis macrolophus\nThe Pukras or Koklas Pheasant\nKoklas, khwakta, phokrns plachh Khwakah\n16.\nGennaeus hamiltonli\nThe white-crested Kali\nKhosle, halij, kalesha\n1st October to 15th March\n17.\nLophophoros impejanus\nThe Impeyan Pheasant or Monal\nMonal, karrari, nil, bod, narel, neroala, nilwal\n18.\nTragopan melanocephalus\nThe Western Horned Pheasant\nPhulgar, jaji, jijurana, jowar\n19.\nPerdicula asiatica\nThe bush quai\nLowal, lawa, batol, batoli, choonuk\n15th September to 15th March\n20.\nArborophil torqueolo\nThe Hill Partidge\nPiora, pimera, pahari titar ban titar\n21.\nAlectoria groeca\nThe Chukar or Chikor\nChukor, chukra onakur, khonk, kanuk kakh chahru\n22.\nAmmoperdix griseogularis\nThe See see Partidge\nSisi, sasi, sussi, kakki, chaukla\n15th September to 1st March\n23.\nFrancolinus francolinus\nThe Black Patridge\nKala titar, koddi titar\n1st November to 1st March vide Government Notification No.\n\t\t\t\t\t430-C, dated 2nd February, 1937\n24.\nFrancolinus pondicerianus\nThe Grey Patridge\nTitar, titur, bagga titar patila\n25.\nTetraogallus himalayensis\nThe Himalayan Snow Cock\nGolind, golannd, lip lipya\n26.\nTetracgallus tibetanus\nThe Tibetan Snow Cock\nGolind, golaund gourkagu\n1st October to 15th March\n27.\nLerwa lerwa\nThe Snow\nRam chakru, Ram chukor, tillu, doedu, chakru\n28.\nTurnix macumieri\nThe tittle Button Quail\nLawa, chhota, Lawa\n15th September to 1st March\n29.\nTurnix\nThe Indian Botton Quail\n30.\nScolopax rusticola\nThe Wood Cock\nSimkukri, jalakri jul kukri, smukukri\n15th September to 15th March\n31.\nCapella nemoricolo\nThe Wood Snipe\nBurru chaha, Sun kukri, chanh Jalakri\n32.\nCapella solitaria\nThe Eastern Solitary Snipe\n33.\nCapella gallinago\nThe Common of Fantial Snipe\n34.\nCapella stenura\nThe Pin-tail Snipe\nChah, jalakri\n15th September to 1st April\n35.\nCapella media\nThe Great Snipe\n36.\nLymnocryptes minima\nThe Jack Snipe\nChota chaha\n37.\nRostratulo bengalensis\nThe Painted Snipe\nRangila chaha, chabarcha\n38.\nLepus ruficaudatus\nThe Common Indian Hare\nKhargosh, seru, charru susya sasu, seha, saiyah sahu\n15th September to 31st March\n39.\nLepus hypsibius\nThe Upland Hare\nDitto\nE. - River Rules\nRules regulating launching, collection and rafting of timber and the registration of timber property marks, under section 41 of the Act XVI of 1927.\n(a) at the permission, in writing, of the Forest Officer in charge of the Forest Division;\n(b) at the places which such officer may publicly notify as places at which such collection shall ordinarily be made.\n(a) cut, move, conceal, mark or alter or efface any mark on any timber while in transit or adrift on any river, or while stranded on any bank or island of any river, or\n(b) saw or cut up timber or burn timber for the manufacture of charcoal, bricks, lime or surki on any river used for floating purposes, or on any island of such river, or at any place on either bank of the main stream of such river which is within a distance of three miles from such bank at its cold season level, provided that the permission required shall be assumed to have been given if a man applies by a registered letter (Acknowledgement due) addressed to the Divisional Forest Officer concerned and receives no orders within one calendar month from the date of the receipt of the acknowledgement certificate of the registered letter.\n(a) temporary property marks, for special consignments of timer to be transported by water, may be registered by the Forest Officer-in-charge of the Division to which the control of the river pertains, or, with the written permission of such Forest Officer, by the River Range Officer;\n(b) such registration shall be made under such conditions as the Conservator of Forests may from time to time direct;\n(c) a fee of eight annas shall be payable for every separate mark so registered;\n(d) every such registration shall hold good for three months only from the date of the registration; and\n(e) no temporary property mark is required for any timber of a right-holder in the Kangra District which is used in such circumstances or conveyed in such a manner as shall exempt such right-holder from the necessity of obtaining a pass under rule 3.\nRules under section 41(f) and (g) of Act VII of 1878 for the prevention and removal of any obstruction in the rivers.\nRules under section 41(f) and (g) of Act VII of 1878 for the prevention and removal of any obstruction in the rivers.\nPublished vide Punjab Government Notification No. 14548, dated 9th May 1921",
        "footnote": "",
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        "sort_order": 18
    },
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