Indian Forest Act, 1927

The Indian Forest Act, 1927 was largely based on previous Indian Forest Acts implemented under the British.
The most famous one was the Indian Forest Act of 1878.
Both the 1878 act and the 1927 one sought to consolidate
and reserve the areas having forest cover, or signicant
wildlife, to regulate movement and transit of forest produce, and duty leviable on timber and other forest produce. It also denes the procedure to be followed for
declaring an area to be a Reserved Forest, a Protected
Forest or a Village Forest. It denes what is a forest
oence, what are the acts prohibited inside a Reserved
Forest, and penalties leviable on violation of the provisions of the Act.

the rights with the said piece land [boundaries of which

might have been altered or modied during the settlement
process] vest with the State Government. There after, the
State Government issues notication under section 20 of
the Indian Forest Act, 1927 declaring that piece of land
to be a Reserved Forest.

2 Previous legislations

The Indian Forests Act of 1865 extended the British

Colonial claims over forests in India.[1] The 1865 act was
a precursor to the Forest Act of 1878, which truncated
the centuries-old traditional use by communities of their
forests and secured the colonial governments control over
1 Reserved Forest
the forestry. The act of 1865 empowered the British government to declare any land covered with trees as a govReserved Forest is an area mass of land duly notied un- ernment forest and make rules to manage it.
der the provisions of India Forest Act or the State Forest
Acts having full degree of protection. In Reserved Forests
all activities are prohibited unless permitted. Reserved 3 See also
Forest is notied under section 20 of the Indian Forest
Act, 1927 [Act 16 of 1927] or under the reservation pro Reserved forests and protected forests of India
visions of the Forest acts of the [State Governments of the
Indian Union]. The manner in which a [Reserved Forest],
Communal forests of India
shortly written as RF, has to be constituted is described
Biological Diversity Act, 2002
in section 3 to 20 of the Act. It is within power of a State
Government to issue a preliminary notication under sec Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education
tion 4 of the Act declaring that it has been decided to constitute such land, as specied in a Schedule with details
of its location, area and boundary description, into a Reserved Forest. such a notication also appoints an ocer 4 References
of the State Government, normally the Deputy Commissioner of the concerned district, as Forest Settlement Of- [1] Menon, Jisha (2013), The Performance of Nationalism: India, Pakistan, and the Memory of Partition, New
cer. The Forest Settlement Ocer xes a period not less
York: Cambridge University Press, p. 161, ISBN
than three months, to hear the claims and objections of
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every person having or claiming any rights over the land
which is so notied to be reserved. He conducts inquiries
into the claims of rights, and may reject or accept the
same. He is empowered even to acquire land over which 5 External links
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right of pasture, right to forest produce, or right to a water
Indias Forest Conservation Legislation: Acts,
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Government of India, Ministry of Environment &
the owner for surrender of his rights, or proceed to acForests
quire such land in the manner prescribed under the Land
Wildlife Legislations, including - The Indian
Acquisition Act, 1894 [Act 1 of 1894]. Once the Forest
Settlement Ocer settles all the rights either by admitting
Wildlife (Protection) Act from the Ocial website
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of: Government of India, Ministry of Environment
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