The Bihar Private Forest Act, 1947

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    "slug": "the-bihar-private-forest-act-1947",
    "title": "The Bihar Private Forest Act, 1947",
    "short_title": "The Bihar Private Forest Act, 1947",
    "act_number": "Bihar Act 9 of 1948",
    "act_year": 1947,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Bihar",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Bihar Private Forest Act, 1947",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Act not to apply to certain lands.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to any land which is vested in the Government; or\n(b) to any land in respect of which notifications and orders issued under the Indian Forests Act, 1927 (XVI of 1927), are in force.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(1) \"Collector\" in any provision of this Act includes any officer empowered by the State Government to discharge the functions of the Collector under that provision;\n(2) \"Forest\" means any land which the State Government may, by notification, declare to be forest for the purposes of this Act and shall be deemed to include any land which is entered as forest or jungle or jugle-jhaari or described by any synonymous term in any record-of-rights finally published under any law for the time being in force unless it is provided that such entry in respect of the land is incorrect;\n(3) \"Forest offence\" means an offence punishable under this Act or under any rule made thereunder;\n(4) \"Forest Officer\" means any person whom the State Government may appoint to carry out all or any of the purposes of this Act or to do anything required by this Act or any rule made thereunder to be done by a Forest Officer;\n(5) \"Forest produce\" includes-\n(a) the following whether found in, or brought from, a forest or not, that is to say; timber, charcoal, caoutchouc, catechu, wood-oil, resin, natural varnish, bark lac, mahua flowers, mahua seeds, kuth and robalans, and\n(b) the following when found in, or brought from a forest, that is to say,-\n(i) trees and leaves, flowers and fruits, and all other parts or produce not hereinbefore mentioned, of trees,\n(ii) plants not being trees (including grass, creeps, reeds and moss), and all parts or produce of such plants,\n(iii) wild animals and skins, tusks, horns, bones, silk, cocoons, honey and wax, and all other parts or produce of animals, and\n(iv) peat, surface oil and rock;\n(6) \"Landlord\" means the owner of the estate or tenure in which a forest is comprised who is entitled to exercise any rights in the forest;\n(7) \"Owner\" includes-\n(i) the Court of Wards constituted under the Court of Wards Act, 1879 (Bengal Act IX of 1879), in respect of any property under the superintendence or charge of such Court.\n(ii) a manager appointed under Section 2 of the Chota Nagpur Encumbered Estates Act, 1876 (VI of 1876), in respect of any property, the management of which is vested in such manner,\n(iii) any mortgagee in possession, lessee, receiver appointed by a competent Court and any person holding any property in trust;\n(8) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed by rules;\n(9) \"Private forest\" means forest which is not the property of the [Government] or over which the [Government] has no proprietary rights or to the whole or any part of the forest produce of which the [Government] is not entitled;\n(10) \"Private protected forest\" means a forest specified in a notification issued under Section 30 or proviso thereto;\n(11) \"Right-holder\" means a person who has by custom a right of cutting or collecting in, and removing from a forest, timber, fuel and other forest produce for his domestic and agricultural purposes and of pasturing his cattle in a forest;\n(12) \"Rule\" means a rule made under this Act;\n(13) \"Working plan\" means a written scheme for the management and treatment of a forest prepared by the prescribed authority;\n(14) \"Year\" means a year beginning on the first day of April; and\n(15) Words and expression used in this Act and defined in the Indian Forest Act, 1927, (XVI of 1927), and not defined in this Act, have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Indian Forest Act, 1927 (XVI of 1927).\nChapter II\nGeneral Provisions Relating to the exercise of rights in Forests",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Rights in Forests to be exercisable in accordance with this Act.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Power to prohibit the cutting of trees for purposes of fencing or fuel.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Restrictions on right to cut, collect or remove timber, etc., for domestic or agricultural needs.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Restrictions on right to reclaim land in forest for purposes of cultivation.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Height at which trees and age of bamboo clump, that may be cut.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Certain persons not to sell or transfer timber cut in any forest.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Restrictions on right of landlord or persons claiming through landlord to cut and remove timber or forest produce.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Restrictions on right to graze cattle.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Offences under this Chapter and trial of such offences and penalties therefor.",
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            "content": "Chapter III\nPrivate protected forests",
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            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Power to constitute a private protected forest.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Notification by [State] Government.",
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            "content": "(a) declaring that it is proposed to constitute such forest a private protected forest;\n(b) specifying as nearly as possible, the situation and limits of such forests; and\n(c) Stating that any landlord whose interests are likely to be affected if such forest is constituted a private protected forest may, within such period, not being less than three months from the date of the notification, as shall be stated in the notification present to the Collector in writing any objection to such forest being constituted a private protected forest.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Hearing of objection.",
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            "content": "(a) dismissing such objection, or\n(b) directing that the proposal to constitute the said forest a private protected forest shall be dropped either in respect of the whole of the said forest or in respect of a part of it to be specified in the order.\n(a) declaring that it has been decided to constitute such area a private protected forest;\n(b) specifying as nearly as possible the situation and limits of that area; and\n(c) appointing an officer (hereinafter called the \"Forest Settlement Officer\") to inquire into and determine the existence, nature and extent of any rights other than landlords' rights alleged to exist in favour of any person in or over any land comprised within such limits, or in or over any forest produce and to deal with the same as provided in this Chapter.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Proclamation by Forest Settlement Officer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) specifying, as nearly as possible, the situation and limits of the proposed forest;\n(b) explaining the consequences which, as hereinafter provided will ensue when such forest is constituted a private protected forest; and\n(c) fixing a period of not less than three months from the date of such proclamation, and requiring every person claiming any right mentioned in Sub-section (3) of Section 15 (other than landlords' rights) within such period either to present to the Forest Settlement Officer a written notice specifying, or to appear before him and state the nature of such right and the amount and particulars of the compensation (if any) claimed in respect thereof.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Inquiry by Forest Settlement Officer.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. 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",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Extinction of rights.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Prohibition of further contracts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Prohibition of cutting of trees.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Procedure for dealing with claims of forest contractors and grantees.",
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            "content": "(a) any payment made by the claimant to the landlord;\n(b) whether or not such payment was a reasonable and bonafide payment;\n(c) whether or not the exercise by the claimant of a rights under any contract entered into between the claimant and the landlord or under any grant made by the landlord contravened, or was likely to lead to the contravention of the provisions of Section 7;\n(d) any expenses reasonably incurred by the claimant in order to cut, collect or remove trees, timber or other forest produce;\n(e) the value of the trees, timber or other forest-produce cut, collected or removed by, or with the permission of, the claimant;\n(f) any other matter which in the opinion of the Forest Settlement Officer, may be fairly taken into consideration in determining the amount of the compensation.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Power to acquire land over which right is claimed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) exclude such land from the limits of the proposed forest; or\n(ii) come to an agreement with the owner thereof for the surrender of his rights; or\n(iii) proceed to acquire such land in the manner provided by the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (1 of 1894).\n(a) the Forest Settlement Officer shall be deemed to be a Collector proceeding under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (1 of 1894);\n(b) 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(c) the provisions of the preceding sections of that Act shall be deemed to have been complied with; and\n(d) the Collector, with the consent of the claimant, or the Court, with the consent of both parties, may award compensation in land, or partly in land and partly in money.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Order on claims to rights of pasture or to forest produce.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Manner in which Forest Settlement Officer should pass orders.",
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            "content": "(a) decide what fraction of the timber and other forest produce of the forest notified under sub-section (3) of Section 15 shall be allotted to the right holders;\n(b) prepare a list of the names, father's names, castes, residences and occupation of the right-holders;\n(c) decide the maximum amount of timber and other forest produce to which each right-holder is entitled;\n(d) determine the number and description of the cattle, if any, which the claimant is from time to time entitled to graze in the forest and the season during which such pasture is permitted;\n(e) consider the capacity of the forest to supply, without danger to its conservation, the requirements of the right-holders.\n(a) the entries in any record-of-rights prepared and finally published under any law for the time being in force and the value to be attached to such entries under such law;\n(b) any evidence to show the amount of forest-produce which the right holders have taken from the forest notified under sub-section (3) of Section 15 for their fuel or other domestic or agricultural purposes;\n(c) any evidence to show the attempts if any, made by the landlords of the right-holders to preserve the said forest; and\n(d) any other evidence to show the respective rights of the landlord and right-holders in the said forest; and\n(e) the extent of forest not included in the forest notified under subsection (3) of Section 15 and still available for exercise of the rights of right holders.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Suspension of rights when required for the conservation of a forest.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "27. Appeal from orders passed under Section 22, Section 24 or Section 26.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 26
        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "28. Appeal under Section 27.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 27
        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Pleaders.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 28
        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Notification declaring forest to be a private protected forest.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the period fixed under Section 16 for preferring claims has elapsed, and all claims, if any, made under Sections 16 and 22 have been disposed of by the Forest Settlement Officer; and\n(b) if any such claims have been made, the period limited by Section 27 for appealing from the orders passed on such claims has elapsed, and all appeals (if any) presented with such period have been disposed of by the Appellate Officer;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 29
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood of forests.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Restriction on acquisition of rights in or over private protected forests.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 31
        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Rights not to be alienated without sanction.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter IV\nControl and management of private protected forests and Powers of Forest Officers",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 32
        },
        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Control and management of private protected forests to vest in the [State] Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 33
        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Appointment of Forest Officer for private protected forests.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 34
        },
        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Power to invest Forest Officer 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 and material objects;\n(c) power to issue a search warrant under the [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (V of 1998)] ; and\n(d) power to hold an inquiry into forest offences and, in the course of such inquiry, to receive and record evidence.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 35
        },
        {
            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Demarcation of private protected forests.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 36
        },
        {
            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Extent to which landlord is to be allowed to remove timber and other produce from private protected forest.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 37
        },
        {
            "number": "39",
            "title": "39. Landlord to be allowed to construct irrigation works in private protected forest.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 38
        },
        {
            "number": "40",
            "title": "40. State Government to receive all revenues from and incur all expenditure on, private protected forest.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 39
        },
        {
            "number": "41",
            "title": "41. Maintenance of revenue and expenditure account.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "42",
            "title": "42. Payment of allowances for, and net profits of, private protected forest to landlord.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) an allowance calculated on the total area of the forest as determined by the Conservator of Forests at the rate of one anna per acre per annum or such higher rate not exceeding one anna and six pies per acre per annum as the [State] Government may, from time to time, by general or special order, determine; and\n(b) the net profits, if any, accruing from the working and management of the forest:\n(a) the total expenditure shall include the allowance paid to the landlord concerned under clause (a) of sub-section (1) and any sum determined as compensation under sub-section (1) of Section 22 or the value of any thing taken from the forest under sub-section (1) of that Section; and\n(b) the total income shall include the proceeds of confiscations or forfeitures for forest-offences not committed by the landlord in respect of the forest or the forest-produce thereof after deducting from such proceeds-\n(i) the rewards, if any, paid to informers and officers out of such proceeds; and\n(ii) such incidental expense as may be fixed by the Forest Officer including that incurred for the storage, transport and sale of the articles of forest-produce forfeited or confiscated.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 41
        },
        {
            "number": "43",
            "title": "43. Rights of right-holders to be exercised in accordance with rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 42
        },
        {
            "number": "44",
            "title": "44. Grouping of forest for management.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 43
        },
        {
            "number": "45",
            "title": "45. System of annual coupes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 44
        },
        {
            "number": "46",
            "title": "46. Extent of rights of right-holders to be varied by Forest Officer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 45
        },
        {
            "number": "47",
            "title": "47. Release of private protected forest.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 46
        },
        {
            "number": "48",
            "title": "48. Nothing in this Chapter to prohibit acts done in certain cases.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter V\nPenalties and procedure",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 47
        },
        {
            "number": "49",
            "title": "49. Forest-offences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) fells, girdles, lops, taps or burns any tree in a private protected forest, or strips off the bark or leaves from, or otherwise damages, any such tree; or\n(b) quarries any stone, or burns any lime or charcoal, or collects, subjects to any manufacturing process or removes any forest produce from a private protected forest; or\n(c) breaks up or clears for cultivation or any other purpose any land in a private protected forest; or\n(d) sets fire to a private protected forest or kindles a fire without taking all reasonable precautions to prevent its spreading to any portion of such forest; or\n(e) permits cattle to damage any tree in a private protected forest; shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 48
        },
        {
            "number": "50",
            "title": "50. Penalties for breach of rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 49
        },
        {
            "number": "51",
            "title": "51. Seizure of property liable to confiscation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 50
        },
        {
            "number": "52",
            "title": "52. Procedure thereupon.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 51
        },
        {
            "number": "51",
            "title": "53. Power to release property seized under Section 51.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 52
        },
        {
            "number": "54",
            "title": "54. Trees, timber, forest-produce, tools, etc, when liable to confiscation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 53
        },
        {
            "number": "55",
            "title": "55. Disposal on conclusion of trial for forest offence of produce in respect of which it was committed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 54
        },
        {
            "number": "56",
            "title": "56. Procedure when offender not known or cannot be found.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 55
        },
        {
            "number": "51",
            "title": "57. Procedure as to perishable property seized under Section 51.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 56
        },
        {
            "number": "58",
            "title": "58. Appeal from orders under Sections 51, 54, 55, or 56.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 57
        },
        {
            "number": "59",
            "title": "59. Property when to vest in the [State] Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 58
        },
        {
            "number": "60",
            "title": "60. Saving of power to release property seized.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 59
        },
        {
            "number": "61",
            "title": "61. Punishment for wrongful seizure.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 60
        },
        {
            "number": "62",
            "title": "62. Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary marks.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) Knowingly counterfeits upon any timber or standing tree a mark used by Forest Officers to indicate that such timber or trees belongs to a private protected forest or is the property of some person or that it may lawfully be cut or removed by some person;\n(b) alters, defaces or obliterates any such mark placed on a tree in a private protected forest or on timber lying in or removed from any such forest by or under the authority of a Forest Officer; or\n(c) alters, moves, destroys or defaces any boundary-mark of any private protected forest;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 61
        },
        {
            "number": "63",
            "title": "63. Power to arrest without warrant.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 62
        },
        {
            "number": "64",
            "title": "64. Power to prevent commission of offence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[64A. Summary trial of certain cases.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 63
        },
        {
            "number": "65",
            "title": "65. Power to compound offence.",
            "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 61 or Section 62, a sum of money by way of compensation for the offence 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 and to deal with any amount so paid for offences (not suspected to have been committed by the landlord) in respect of a private protected forest or the forest-produce, thereof as proceeds of confiscation relating to the forest for the purposes of clause (b) of Section (3) of Section 42.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 64
        },
        {
            "number": "66",
            "title": "66. Presumption that forest produce belongs to private protected forest.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VI\nCattle Trespass",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 65
        },
        {
            "number": "67",
            "title": "67. Cattle Trespass Act, 1871, to apply.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 66
        },
        {
            "number": "68",
            "title": "68. Power to alter fines fixed under Cattle Trespass Act, 1871.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "For each elephant\nTen rupees.\nFor each buffalo or camel\nTwo rupees.\nFor each horse, mare, gelding, pony, colt, filly mule, bull,\n\t\t\t\tbullock, cow or heifer.\nOne rupee.\nFor each calf, ass, pig, ram, ewe, sheep, lamb, goat or kid\nFifty paise.\nChapter VII\nForest Officers",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 67
        },
        {
            "number": "69",
            "title": "69. Forest Officers deemed public servants.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 68
        },
        {
            "number": "70",
            "title": "70. Forest Officer not to trade.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 69
        },
        {
            "number": "71",
            "title": "71. Bar of suits and other proceedings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in respect of any modification, suspension or extinction, as a result of any such notification or order or as a result of the restriction imposed by Section 19 or Section 20 of any rights which any person was entitled by virtue of any contract or otherwise to exercise in such forest:\n(b) to vary or set aside any order passed by the Forest Settlement Officer under Section 22 or Section 24 or Section 26 or any order passed in appeal or revision under sub-section (2) or sub-section (3) of Section28;\n(c) against the [State] Government or any servant of the [Government] in respect of anything done or omitted to be done in a private protected forest by the [State] Government or any such servant of the [Government] while such forest was under the control or management of the [State] Government in respect of any profits claimed by the landlord to be due to him in respect of the management and working of such forest;\n(d) in respect of anything in good faith done or purporting to be done by any servant of the Government in the discharge of any duty or the exercise of any power imposed or conferred on him by or under this Act.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 70
        },
        {
            "number": "72",
            "title": "72. Persons bound to assist Forest Officers and Police Officers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to extinguish any forest fire in such forest of which he has knowledge or information;\n(b) to prevent by any lawful means in his power any fire in the vicinity of such forest of which he has knowledge or information 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.\n(a) to furnish without unnecessary delay to nearest Forest Officer or Police Officer any information required by sub-section (1);\n(b) to take steps, as required by sub-section (1), to extinguish any forest fire in a private protected forest,\n(c) to prevent, as required by sub-section (1), any fire in the vicinity of such forest from spreading to such forest; or\n(d) to assist any Forest Officer or Police Officer demanding his aid in preventing the commission in such forest of any forest offence or, when there is-reason to believe that any such offence has been committed in such forest, in discovering and arresting the offender; shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees, or with both.\nChapter VIII\nMiscellaneous",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 71
        },
        {
            "number": "73",
            "title": "73. Recovery of money due to Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 72
        },
        {
            "number": "74",
            "title": "74. Lien on forest produce for money due to Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 73
        },
        {
            "number": "75",
            "title": "75. Land acquired under this Act to be deemed to be needed for a public purpose under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 74
        },
        {
            "number": "76",
            "title": "76. Recovery of penalties due under bond.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 75
        },
        {
            "number": "77",
            "title": "77. Power to make Rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the cutting, sawing, conversion and removal of trees and timber and the collection, manufacture and removal of forest-produce from private protected forests;\n(b) the granting of licences to the inhabitants of towns and villages in the vicinity of private protected forests to take trees, timber or other forest produce for their own use, and the production and return of such licences by such persons;\n(c) the granting of licences to persons for felling or removing trees or timber or other forest produce in or from such forests for the purposes of trade, and the production and return of such licences by such persons;\n(d) the payment, if any, to be made by the persons mentioned in clauses (b) and (c) for permission to cut such trees or to collect and remove such timber or other forest produce;\n(e) other payments, if any, to be made by them in respect of such trees, timber and forest-produce and the places where such payments shall be made;\n(f) the examination of forest-produce passing out of such forests;\n(g) the clearing and breaking up of land for cultivation or other purposes in such forests;\n(h) the protection from fire of timber lying in such forests and of trees;\n(i) the cutting of grass and the pasturing of cattle in such forests;\n(j) hunting, shooting, fishing, poisoning water and setting traps or snares in such forests and the killing or catching of elephants in such forests in areas in which the Elephants' Preservation Act, 1879 (VI of 1879) is not in force:\n(k) the burning of charcoal, or the subjection of any forest produce to any manufacturing process in such forests;\n(l) the exercise in such forest of any rights of right-holders;\n(m) to regulate rewards to be paid to officers and informers out of the proceeds of fines and confiscations under this Act;\n(n) to regulate working of mines and quarrying for minerals for purposes of Section 78 of this Act;\n(o) the powers and duties of a Forest Officer under this Act;\n(p) the items to be included as revenue and items to be included as expenditure in the account mentioned in Section 41, and the manner in which such account shall be prepared;\n(q) any matter which is by this Act expressly required or authorised to be prescribed or to be provided for by rules; and (r) any other matter for which there is no provision or no sufficient provision in this Act and for which provision is in the opinion of the [State] Government necessary for giving effect to the purposes of this Act.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 76
        },
        {
            "number": "78",
            "title": "78. Savings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 77
        },
        {
            "number": "79",
            "title": "79. Repeals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 78
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "bh261",
        "Act Number": "Bihar Act 9 of 1948",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1947",
        "Short Title": "The Bihar Private Forest Act, 1947",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Bihar"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}