United Khasi-Jaintia Hills Autonomous District (Management and Control of Forests) Act, 1958

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    "title": "United Khasi-Jaintia Hills Autonomous District (Management and Control of Forests) Act, 1958",
    "short_title": "United Khasi-Jaintia Hills Autonomous District (Management and Control of Forests) Act, 1958",
    "act_number": "(United Khasi-Jaintia Hills Act 1 of 1959)",
    "act_year": 1958,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Assam",
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    "description": "United Khasi-Jaintia Hills Autonomous District (Management and Control of Forests) Act, 1958",
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            "title": "2. Definitions and interpretation.",
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            "content": "(a) \"District Council\" means the District Council of the \"Khasi Hills Autonomous District\n(b) \"District Fund\" means the District Fund of the United Khasi-Jaintia Hills Autonomous District constituted under paragraph 7 of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India and \"District\" means the Autonomous District of the United Khasi- Jaintia Hills ;\n(c) \"Dolloiships\" means those areas in the Jowai Sub-division known as \"British Dolloiships\" prior to the commencement of the Constitution of India. They are nineteen in number as shown in Appendix I;\n(d) \"Durbar\" means the customary Durbar of the Syiem, Lyngdoh, Sirdar, Dolloi, Wahadadar or head, as the case may be ;\n(e) \"Executive Committee\" means the Executive Committee of the District Council of the United Khasi-Jainita Hills Autonomous District, and the terms \"Chief Executive Member\" and \"Member of the Executive Committee\" shall be construed accordingly ;\n(f) \"Forest\" means and shall be deemed to be a forest, if in the area, there are reasonable number of trees, say, not less than twenty-five trees per acre, reserved or unreserved or any other forest produce growing on such area, which have been or are capable of being exploited for purposes of business or trade ;\n(g) \"Forest Officer\" means any person appointed by name or is holding office by or under the Executive Committee and includes the Chief Forest Officer, an Assistant Forest Officer,Forest Ranger, Deputy Forest Ranger Forester, Assistant Forester, Forest Guard or any person or agent discharging the function of a Forest Officer under this Act or any rule, thereunder ;\n(h) \"Forest produce\" includes-\n(1) those which are found in or brought from a forest namely : timber, charcoal, caoutchoue, rasin, bark, myrabolam,\n(2) trees, plants not being trees including grass, creepers, reids, canes, orchids; and\n(3) skin, tusks, horns, bones, lacs and silk cocoons found in or brought from a forest;\n(i) \"Forest offence\" means an offence punishable under this Act or any rule thereunder:\n(j) \"Government\" means the Government of Assam ;\n(k) \"He\" -the pronoun \"He\" and its derivatives are used so as to include any person whether male or female ;\n(l) \"Magistrate\" means a magistrate of the first class or second class and includes a magistrate. of the third class when he is specially empowered by the Executive Committee to try forest offences.\n(m) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(n) \"Rangbah kur\" means the representatives of a family clan or (group of) joint clans ;\n(o) \"Reserved forest\" means any area which is a reserved forest as defined in sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 3 of the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India ;\n(p) \"Reserved trees\" are such trees as may be reserved by the order of the District Council ;\n(q) \"River\" includes also streams, canals and other channels natural or artificial;\n(r) \"Reid\" means a distinct within the Syiemship, Dolloiship, Lgdohship, Sirdarship or Wahadadarship composed of one or more villages ;\n(s) \"Syiemship\" means those areas known as \"Khasi State\" prior to the commencement of the Constitution of India. They are twenty-five in number as shown in Appendix II;\n(t) \"Sirdarships\" means those areas in the Shillong Sub-division known as 'British Sirdarship' prior to the commencement of the Constitution of India. They are thirty-one in number as shown in Appendix III ;\n(u) \"Tree\" includes palms, bamboos, slums, brushwood and canes ;\n(v) \"Timber\" includes trees where they have fallen or have been felled, and all woods, whether cut of or fashioned or hollowed cut for any purpose;\n(w) \"this Act\" means the United Khasi-Jaintia Hills Autonomous District (Management and Control of Forests) Act, 1958 (Act No. 1 of 1959, as amended).",
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            "title": "3. Classification of forest.",
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            "content": "(i) (a) Private Forest. - These are forests belonging to an individual or clan or joint clans which are grown or inherited by him or them in recognised private lands (Ri Kynti);\n(b) Law-Ri-Sumar. - These are forests belonging to an individual clan or joint clans which are grown or inherited by him or them in a village common raj land.\n(ii) Law Lijngdoh, Law Kyntang, Lazo Niam,-These are forests set apart on religious purpose and hitherto managed or controlled by the Lyngdoh or other person or persons to whom the religious ceremonies for the particular locality or village or villagers are entrusted.\n(iii) Law-Adong and Law-Shnong. - These are village forests hitherto reserved by the villagers themselves for conserving water, etc, for the use of the villagers and managed by the Sirdar or headmen with the help of the Village Durbar ;\n(iv) Protected Forests. - These are areas already declared protected for the growth of trees for the benefit of the local inhabitants and also forests that may be so declared by rules under this Act;\n(v) Green Block. - These are forests belonging to an individual family or clans or joint clans and raj lands already declared as Green Block by Government for aesthetic beauty and water supply of the town of Shillong and its suburbs and also forests that may be so declared by rules under this Act;\n(vi) Raid Forests. - These are forests looked after by the heads of the Raid under the management of the local administrative head ;\n(vii) District Council Reserved Forests. - These are forests that may be so declared by the Executive Committee under this Act or the rules made thereunder;\n(viii) Unclassed Forests. - These are forests hitherto known as Unclassed State Forests before the commencement of the Constitution of India directly managed and controlled by the Government including any other forest(s) not falling within any of the above classification.",
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            "content": "(b) Law Lyngdoh, Law Kyntang, Law Niam shall be managed by the Lyngdoh or person or persons mentioned in Section 3 (ii) above in accordance with the customary practice in vogue subject to the rules that may be framed by the Executive Committee from time to time.\n(c) Law Adong and Law Shnong shall be managed by the Sirdars or headmen mentioned in Section 3 (iii) above in accordance with the customary practice in vogue subject to the rules that may be framed by the Executive Committee from time to time.\n(d) Protected Forests shall be looked after by the local administrative heads in accordance with the rules framed by the Executive Committee.\n(e) Green Blocks shall be looked after by the owners in accordance with the rules framed by the Executive Committee.\n(f) Raid Forest shall be managed by the heads of the Raid under the management of the local administrative heads subject to the rules to be prescribed by the Executive Committee.\n(g) District Council Reserved Forests shall be owned, managed and controlled by the Executive Committee.\n(h) Unclassed Forests shall be directly managed and controlled by the Executive Committee.\n4A.",
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            "title": "6. Reserved trees.",
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            "title": "7. Dienglaram.",
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            "title": "7. Restriction on the felling of trees.",
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            "title": "8. Rates of royalty.",
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            "content": "(i) that all royalty realised shall be credited to the District Fund ;\n(ii) that the royalty on timbers of the Reserved trees from Raid Forests, Unclassed Forests, Protected Forests shall be half the full rates in respect of persons living in the neighbouring area of the forests concerned where the timber is/are needed for their own domestic use, that is for building purpose only. The Executive Committee may, however, relax this provision in case of timbers needed for public utility;\n(iii) that no royalty shall be charged for the removal of timbers from Raid Forest, Unclassed Forest except reserved trees by the members of the Raid for their own domestic use or public purpose ;\n(iv) that the District Council shall annually give to the Syiemships a share of royalty at a percentage to be prescribed by it.\n9.\n10.\n11.",
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            "title": "12. Control over ferrying and transit of forest produce.",
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            "content": "(a) provide for the stoppage, reporting, examination and marking of forest produce in transit, in respect of which there is reason to believe that any money is payable to the District Council or to which it is desirable for the purpose of this Act to affix a mark ;\n(b) establish revenue stations to which forest produce is' to be taken by the person in charge of it for examination or for 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(c) provide for the management and control of such revenue stations and for regulating the appointment and duties of persons employed thereat;\n(d) regulate the establishment of saw' mills or saw pits or workshops using or consuming timbers and prohibit, absolutely or subject to conditions as may be specified in a permit which may be issued by the Executive Committee for a particular or local area or for the whole Autonomous District in general, the establishment of saw mills or saw pits or workshops using or consuming timbers and including the converting, cutting, burning, concealing, marking or supermarking of timber, the altering or effacing of any mark on the same and possession or carrying of marking hammers or other implements used for marking timber ;\n(e) regulate the use of property marks for timber and the registration of such marks, authorise the refusal or cancellation of the registration on any property marks, prescribe the time for which the registration of property marks is to 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.",
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            "title": "13. Power to regulate telling of trees, etc.",
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            "content": "(a) regulate or prohibit the kindling of fires, and prescribe the precautions to be taken to prevent the spread of fires ;\n(b) regulate or prohibit the felling, cutting, girdling, marking, lopping, tapping or injuring by fire or otherwise of any trees, the sawing, conversion and removal, and the collection and removal of other forest produce ;\n(c) regulate or prohibit the boiling of catechu or the burning of lime or charcoal;\n(d) regulate or prohibit the cutting of grass and pasturing of cattle and regulate the payment, if any, to be made for such cutting or pasturing;\n(e) regulate the sale of free grant of forest produce ; and\n(f) prescribe or authorise any Forest Officer to prescribe subject to the control of the Executive Committee, 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.",
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            "title": "24. Appeals.",
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            "title": "25. Disposal of seized property after appeal.",
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            "title": "26. Powers to release seized property and withdrawal of charges.",
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            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Punishment for malicious seizure.",
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            "title": "28. Punishment with intent to cause damage or injury.",
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            "content": "(a) knowingly counterfeits upon trees or timber or mark used by Forest Officers to indicate that such tree or timber is the property of the District Council or of some person, or that it may unlawfully be felled or removed by some person, or\n(b) unlawfully affixes to any tree or timber a mark used by Forest Officer, 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, destroy or defaces any boundary mark of any forest or waste land to which any provisions of this Act apply,",
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            "title": "29. Power to arrest without orders or warrant.",
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            "title": "30. Duty of Forest Officers to prevent commission of forest offence.",
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            "content": "30A.\n31.\n(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 27 or Section 28, a sum of money by way of compensation for an 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.",
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            "title": "34. Power to make rules for improvement of forest.",
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            "content": "(a) The improvement and management of the forest ;\n(b) The collection of royalty on timbers and forest produces ;\n(c) Providing uniforms to such Forest Officers as the Executive Committee may deem fit;\n(d) Any other matter connected with the improvement, management, control and administration of forests.\n35.\nAppendix I\nAppendix I\n[ Vide Section 2 (c)]",
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            "content": "Appendix II\nAppendix II\n[ Vide Section 2 (s)]",
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