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    "id": 16920,
    "slug": "forest-rules",
    "title": "Forest Rules",
    "short_title": "Forest Rules",
    "act_number": "Published vide Punjab Government Notification No. ",
    "act_year": 1923,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Haryana",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Forest Rules",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. General Powers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "2.\nClass of officers\n\t\t\t\t\tempowered\nSection of the Act\n\t\t\t\t\tunder which powers are given\nBrief description of\n\t\t\t\t\tnature of powers conferred\nI. All Deputy Conservators, Assistant Conservators and Extra\n\t\t\t\t\tAssistant Conservators, when in charge of Forest Divisions\n20\nTo publish translation of notifications of reserved forests.\n25\nTo notify seasons during which the kindling, etc., of fire is\n\t\t\t\t\tnot prohibited.\n45\nTo notify depots for drift timber, etc.\n60\nTo direct release of property seized.\n82\nTo take possession of and sell forest produce for Government\n\t\t\t\t\tuse.\nII. All Deputy Conservators, Assistant Conservators and Extra\n\t\t\t\t\tAssistant Conservators\n46\nTo issue notice to claimants of drift timber, etc.\n47\nTo decide claims to drift timber, etc.\n50\nTo receive payments on account of drift timber, etc.\nIII. All Deputy Conservators, Assistant Conservators and\n\t\t\t\t\tExtra Assistant Conservators, Forest Rangers, Deputy Rangers and\n\t\t\t\t\tForesters when specially authorised in that behalf by the Chief\n\t\t\t\t\tConservator of Forests or Conservators of Forests.\n25\nTo permit acts otherwise prohibited in reserved forests\n33\nTo permit acts otherwise prohibited in protected forests.\n3.\n4.",
            "footnote": "",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Powers to compound offences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Powers to compel attendance of witnesses, to issue search warrant and to record evidence.",
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            "content": "Class of officers\n\t\t\t\t\tempowered\nSection of the Act\n\t\t\t\t\tunder which powers are given\nBrief description of\n\t\t\t\t\tnature of powers conferred\nI. Conservators of Forests and all Divisional Forests\n\t\t\t\t\tOfficers, provided that such officers hold substantive rank not\n\t\t\t\t\tlower than that of Assistant Conservator of Forests or Extra\n\t\t\t\t\tAssistant Conservator of Forests, and that they have passed the\n\t\t\t\t\tprescribed tests in Forests Law and in Urdu by the Higher\n\t\t\t\t\tStandard\n71(b)\nPowers of a Civil Court to compel the attendance of witnesses\n\t\t\t\t\tand the production of documents\nII. Conservators of Forests\n71(c)\nPower to issue a search warrant under the Code of Criminal\n\t\t\t\t\tProcedure *[-]\nIII. Conservators of Forests and all officers of and above\n\t\t\t\t\tthe rank of Assistant Conservator of Forests or Extra Assistant\n\t\t\t\t\tConservator of Forests : provided that they have passed the\n\t\t\t\t\tprescribed tests in Forests Law and in Urdu by the Higher\n\t\t\t\t\tStandard.\n71(d)\nPower to hold an enquiry in Forest offences and in the course\n\t\t\t\t\tof such enquiry to receive and record evidence\n*Omitted by Punjab Government Notification No. 2479-Ft-55/1603, dated 17.6.1955.\n7.",
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        {
            "number": "492",
            "title": "8. Powers of Forests Officers to be Public Prosecutors under section 492 of the Criminal Procedure Code, Act V of 1898.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "29-A",
            "title": "9. Powers of Forest Officers to be Public Officers under section 29-A of the Courts Fees Act, 1870, as amended by the Courts Fees (Punjab Amendment) Act, 1939.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "10.\nB. - (a) Appointment of Rakhas and others in the Kangra District to be Forest Officers\n(b) Appointment of lambardars and others of the Hoshiarpur District to be Forest Officers\n[Appointment of Rakhas in Revenue District as Forest Officers]\nSchedule\nSerial No\nRevenue district\nExecutive Forest and\n\t\t\t\t\tSoil Conservation charges\n1\nGurdaspur\n2\nKangra\nKangra Forest Society Division\n3\nHoshiarpur\nHoshiarpur Forest Division\n4\nAmbala\nAmbala/Gurgaon Soil Conservation Division\n5\nGurgaon\nDitto\nC. - Payment of Rewards\nRules Regulating the payment of rewards to certain Revenue, Police and Forest Officers\nRules Regulating the payment of rewards to certain Revenue, Police and Forest Officers\nD. - Shooting, Hunting and Fishing Rules\nGeneral rules regarding shooting, hunting and fishing in Reserved and Protected Forests under section 25(i) and section 31(i) of Act, VII 1878.\nRules to regulate shooting and hunting in all Reserved and Protected Forests of every class in the Kangra District under Clause (j) of Section 32, Clause (d) of Section 76 and Clause I (i) of Section 2 of the Indian Forest Act, 1927.]",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title.",
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            "content": "Extent.\nDefinition.\nSI. No\nEnglish name\nScientific name\nKangra name\nKulu name\n1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n1.\nHimalayan Ibex\nCapra sibirica\nTangrol\nKatorol Tangrol (Spiti), Skin (Lahaul)\n2.\nTahr\nHemitragus\nKart\nKart Korth (M).\nJemlaicus\nMeshi (F)\nBakri (F)\n3.\nThe great Tibetan sheep or Nyan or Argali,\n\t\t\t\t\tmisnamed Ovis ammon by sportsmen\nOvis, hodgsoni (Ovis ammon hodgsoni)\nNian.\n4.\nThe Blue Wild Sheep or Bharal\nOvis Nahura (Pseudois nahoor)\nMiatu.\n5.\nThe Himalayan Goat Antelope or Serow\nNemorhaedus bubalinus (Capricornis sumatrenis)\nGoa\nYamu., Emu.\n6.\nGoral\nCemes goral (Nemorahedus goral)\nPij Ban Bakri Ghrorrur\nBan Bakri Gurrar, Ghoral, Ghurral, Gudh.\n7.\n*\n*\n*\n*\n8.\nHog Deer\nCervus porcinus(Hyelaphus porcinus)\nPara\n9.\nBarking Deer or Muntjac\nCervulus muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak)\nKakar\nKakar\n10.\nMusk Deer\nMoschus moschiterus\nKastura Taunsa Bina\nBina, Kastura Raonwi (F.) Ranwhin (F.)\n11.\nBlue Bull and Nilgai\nBoselphus Tragocamelus\nNilgai, Bangai, Raj\n12.\nBrown Bear or Snow Bear\nUrsus arcots isabellinus\nBrahbo Lagru\nRotta Bhalu., Rata Balu., Bhird., Brabhu.\nNote - Names given in brackets in column 3 are latest classification taken from Lydekker's Fauna.\nNote",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Prohibition of snares traps and nets.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Prohibition of driving in snow.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Big game licences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Free Licences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Big game licences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Rs.\nKulu\n..\n(a) 30 (for animals other than brown bear).\n...\n(b) 40 (for the brown bear in addition to other animals)\nLahaul\n..\n30\nSpiti\n..\n30\nBara Banghal\n..\n30\nChota Bhangal\n..\n30\nRest of Kangra\n..\n5\n(1)\nIbex or Tangrol (Capra sibirica)\n1\n(Kulu and Chota Banghal. No head to measure less than 30\")\n2\n(Lahaul and Bara Banghal. No head to measure less than 30\").\n3\n(Spiti. No head to measure less than 30\").\n(2)\nNyan Ovis Hodgson (Ovis ammon hodgsoni)\n1\n(Minimum head 38\").\n(3)\nBharal (Ovis nahura) Pseudois nahoor\n2\n(Kulu and Lahaul. Minimum head 20\").\n4\n(Spiti, Minimum head 20\").\n(4)\nGoral (Cemes goral) Nemorhaedus goral\n*3\n(with minimum length of horn 4 inches, 1313-Ft., dated 11th\n\t\t\tJuly, 1944.\n(5)\nTahr and Kart (Hemitragus jemlaicus)\n2\n(Minimum head 10\").\n(6)\nSerow or Yamu (Nemorhaedus bubalinus) (Capricornis sumatrensis)\n1\n(No limits).\n(7)\nBarking deer (Cervulus muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak)\n*2\n(With minimum length of horn 4 inches, including pediceli)\n(8)\nBrown bear (Ursus arctos isabellinus)\n1\n(except in Bara Banghal where 2 may be shot only when without\n\t\t\tcub or cubs)\n(9)\n*Hog deer (cervus pornicus) (Axix axis)\n1\n(With minimum length of 12 inches).\n*Substituted by Punjab Government Notification No. 1314-Ft., dated 11.7.1914.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Musk deer, hawks.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Special permission as to licences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Application for licences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Note - Bare Banghal and Chota Banghal are in Kangra [Forest Societies] Division; Lahaul and Spiti are in Kulu Division. All forests lying west of Banghal are in Kangra Division.",
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            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Employment of shikaris.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Penalties.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Rights of the Rai and Rupi.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Sheep killers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "14.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
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        {
            "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",
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        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Prohibition of obstructions in rivers and licences for booms or weirs.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Prevention and removal of obstructions on banks and in the channel of a river and recovery of cost thereof.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Regulations regarding interference with irrigation bands.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "4.\n(i) ensure a flow of water into any irrigation or water mill channel breached under these rules by closing the breach in a manner sufficient for this purpose.\n(ii) at his own expense make all necessary repairs to irrigation or water mill channels to which damage due to his timber operation has been caused.",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Compensation to be paid to right holders for damage done to bands or for loss due to shortage of water.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Rafting Fees\nSignature of Officer receiving payment\n(Name)____________\n(Rank)_____________\n1\n2\n3\n4\n5\nName and description\n\t\t\t\t\tof timber\nEstimated value\nRafting fees payable\nDepots at which fees\n\t\t\t\t\tpayable and timber to examined\nRemarks\nName of owner\nAmount\nKind No.\nDimensions\nCub. Contents\nRs.\nA.P. Rate\nUnit Rs.\nA.P.\nName of Depositor\nSignature of Examining Officer\nDepots where pass will be given up and timber\n\t\t\t\t\tpassed out\nSignature of Issuing Officer\nName ____________________ Rank\n\t\t\t\t_________Depot_________\nPeriod of Renewal\nRenewing Officer\nFrom\nTo\nName\nRank\nCharge\nRemarks\nRules regulating the collection of drift timber and payment of salvage fees under section 51 of the Act VII of 1878\nRules regulating the collection of drift timber and payment of salvage fees under section 51 of the Act VII of 1878\nPublished vide Punjab Government Notification No. 411 dated 19.8.1879, No. 84 dated 26.1.1912, 372 dated 7.12.1916 and 19805 dated 3.7.1926.\nRs.\nA.\nP.\n[For every log of deodar of 8 feet in girth and over\n1\n8\n0\nFor every log of deodar of 5 feet in girth and over\n0\n12\n0\nFor every log of deodar under 5 feet in girth\n0\n6\n0\nSleepers and scantlings\n0\n6\n0\neach]\nF. - Forest Rules of General Application\nRules for the unclassed forest or waste lands belonging to Government, under sections 52 and 50-B of the Punjab Lands Act, IV of 1872.\nRules for the unclassed forest or waste lands belonging to Government, under sections 52 and 50-B of the Punjab Lands Act, IV of 1872.\n(a) protected and reserved forest;\n(b) lands under the control of the Military, Canal or Railway authorities;\n(c) lands under the control of District Boards and Municipal Committees;\n(d) encamping-grounds;\n(e) Government lands to which any special rules having the force of law under any Act for the time being in force in the Punjab, apply;\n(f) lands included within the area of any cultivating lease, or which have been allotted under the Government Tenants (Punjab) Act, 1893.\n(a) \"Cattle\" includes, besides horned cattle, camels, horses, asses, mules, sheep, goats, and the young of such animals.\n(b) \"Collector\" means the Collector of the district, and any person on whom the powers of a Collector have been conferred under section 27 of the Punjab Land Revenue Act, XVII of 1887.\n(c) \"Forest Officer\" means any officer of the Forest Department in charge of a Forest Range, and includes any person appointed by the Collector or by the Conservator of Forests, Punjab, to discharge all or any of the functions given by these rules to the Forest Officer.\n(d) \"Farmer\" means a person to whom the right to collect fees for the pasturing of cattle or to cut wood or grass or to remove fuel or any other natural product of any land to which these rules apply, has been issued by the Collector.\n(e) \"Graze\" includes \"browse\".\n(i) under the authority of law in accordance with the conditions of a licence granted by the Collector or Forest Officer; or\n(ii) with the permission of a farmer and in accordance with the conditions of such farmer's lease.\n(a) the nature, extent and duration of the rights thereby conferred;\n(b) the consideration paid or to be paid by the licence holder;\n(c) the special conditions, if any, on which the licence is granted.\n(a) the nature, extent and duration, which shall in no case exceed five years, of the rights thereby conferred;\n(b) the consideration paid or to be paid by the farmer; and\n(c) the special conditions, if any, on which the lease is granted.\n(a) in case where the consideration-money is payable by instalments, a statement as to the amount of the said instalments and the dates on which they will fall due;\n(b) in cases where the lease relates to the right of grazing -\n(1) a specification of the maximum grazing dues which the farmer may lease; and\n(2) a clause providing that the farmer shall not, without the written permission of the Collector, transfer the lease or close any portion of the leased area to grazing by any cattle in respect of which grazing dues are tendered under Rule 6; and\n(c) in all cases a clause providing that, if the leased area or any part thereof is at any time required by the Government for public purposes, the lease shall be terminable on payment to the farmer of reasonable compensation to be assessed by the Collector.\nSchedule\nHissar\nDistrict\nRohtak\n\"\nKarnal\n\"\nRules regulating the firing of land near Reserved Forests under section 25(b) of Act VII of 1878\nRules regulating the firing of land near Reserved Forests under section 25(b) of Act VII of 1878\nPublished vide Punjab Government Notification No. 437, dated 3.10.1904.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "hl224",
        "Act Number": "Published vide Punjab Government Notification No. 22890, dated 26 September 1923",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1923",
        "Short Title": "Forest Rules",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Haryana"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}