The NWFC Hazar Forest act, 1936
THE NWFP HAZARA FOREST ACT, 1936
THE NWFP HAZARA FOREST ACT, 1936 – (Complete Act Download)
(SUMMARY)
Sections
- Short title and extent.
- Definitions.
RESERVED FORESTS
- Management of Reserved forest.
- Reserved Forest to be the property of Government.
- Alienation of right in or over reserved forests
- Acquisition of right in or over reserved forest
- Demarcation
- Powers to stop ways and water courses
- Acts prohibited
- Forfeiture of implements and conveyance
- Power to declare forest no longer reserved
WASTE -LANDS
- Rights in waste land
- Power to protect waste lands
- Power to set apart waste land or growth of grass, trees or brushwood
- Power to set apart waste land for growth of trees, brushwood or grass on application of land owners
- Power to protect waste land from erosion, etc.
- Appointment of village forest officers and issue of management orders
- Firing of village waste lands
- Village officers and village forest officers bound to report acts contrary to the above prohibition
- Treatment of illicit cultivation, etc
- Treatment of encroachment on common land
- Assessment of cultivation in protected waste
- Protection of cultivation by retaining walls
- Treatment of cultivations in dangerous positions on hill sides.
- Cost of management
- Offences in waste lands
CHAPTER IV
DUTIES AND FEES
- Seigniorage fee
- Power to impose duty on timber
CHAPTER V
CONTROL OF FOREST PRODUCE IN TRANSIT
- Power of local Govt to issue rule for floating timber and levying fees
CHAPTER VI
DRIFT AND STRANDED TIMBERS
- Collection of all such timber either marked or unmarked
- Acceptance or rejection of Claimants appeal
- Disposal of unclaimed timber
- The Govt shall not be responsible for any loss or damage of timber
CHAPTER VII
PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE
- Persons having rights are bound to furnish any information like any forest offence, damage, etc and shall be bound to use his best efforts
- Power to close forests that have been burnt or otherwise damaged
- Power to close waste land in case of violation of the provision of the act
- Punishment of act in contravention of order passed under Section 36
- Power to close land illicitly cultivated
- Power of seizure of forest-produce unlawfully removed
- Power to release property seized under Section 39
- Punishment for unlawful seizure
- Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber or altered boundary marks
- Power to arrest without warrant
- Power to release on bond a person arrested
- Power to compound offences
- Procedure (on above)
- Jurisdiction
CHAPTER VIII
CATTLE TRESSPASS
- Impound and seizure of cattle trespassing in closed area
CHAPTER IX
FOREST OFFIECERS
- Conferment on Forest Officers of powers of Deputy Commissioner or Assistant Collector
- Conferment on Forest Officer of certain other powers
- Forest Officers deemed public servants
- No Forest Officer trade in timber, except with permission of Local Govt
CHAPTER X
SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS
- Additional powers to make rules
- Publication of rules in official Gazette
- Indemnity for acts done in good faith
- Recovery of money by Govt
- Recovery of the penalties due under bond
- Repeal of Regulation III of 1911
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