State Act: Telangana
The Telangana Forest Act, 1967
Act Act No.1 of 1967 · 73 sections
Text as published by India Code for the Government of Telangana (Environment, Forests, Science and Technology Department): the Andhra Pradesh Forest Act, 1967 as in force in the combined State on 2 June 2014, adapted to Telangana under section 101 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 by G.O.Ms.No.22, E.F.S&T (For.I) Department, dated 13.05.2015, with amendments up to Act No.35 of 1997.
Amendments made by Andhra Pradesh after 2 June 2014, such as the Andhra Pradesh Forest (Amendment) Act, 2016, do not apply in Telangana and are not in this text.
Chapter IIIA (sections 28A to 28G, Preservation of Private Forests) applies only in the Scheduled Areas and is not part of this India Code text; it is printed in the 2012 text of the Andhra Pradesh Forest Act hosted by the Telangana Forest Department, and the Telangana Preservation of Private Forest Rules, 1978, made under section 28-G for the scheduled areas, were adopted in Telangana by G.O.Ms.No.22 of 13.05.2015; the instrument that inserted the chapter has not been identified.
Contents
CHAPTER-I PRELIMINARY
CHAPTER-II Reserved Forests
- 3.Power to reserve forests
- 4.Notification by Government
- 5.Suits barred
- 6.Proclamation by Forest Settlement Officer
- 7.Bar of accrual of forest rights and prohibition of clearings
- 8.Inquiry by Forest Settlement Officer
- 9.Powers of Forest Settlement Officer
- 10.Claims to certain rights
- 11.Claims to rights of way, etc.,
- 12.Compensation for rights
- 13.Appeals from the orders of Forest Settlement Officer
- 14.Appointment of Pleaders
- 15.Notification declaring forest reserved
- 16.Extinction of rights not claimed
- 17.No right acquired over reserved forest except as herein provided
- 18.Right continued under section 11 not to be alienated without sanction
- 19.Power to stop ways and water courses in reserved forests
- 20.Penalties for trespass or damage in reserved forest and acts prohibited in such forest
- 21.Suspension of rights in reserved forest
- 22.Persons bound to assist forest officer and police officer
- 23.Power to declare reserved forest as no longer reserved
CHAPTER III Protected Forests
CHAPTER IV Control of timber and other forest produce in transit or possession.
CHAPER V Possession of Sandalwood
CHAPTER VI Of the collection of drift and stranded timber.
- 37.Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of Government until title thereto is proved and may be collected accordingly
- 38.Notice to claimants to drift timber
- 39.Procedure on the presentation of claim to such timber
- 40.Disposal of unclaimed timber
- 41.Government and their officers not liable for damage to timber collected under section 37
- 42.Payment to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him
- 43.Power to make rules and prescribe penalty for contravention thereof
CHAPTER VII Penalties and Procedure.
- 44.Seizure of property liable to confiscation and procedure thereupon
- 45.Timber, forest produce, tools etc., when liable to confiscation
- 46.Disposal on conclusion of trial for forest offence of timber or forest produce in respect of which it was committed
- 47.Procedure when offender is not known or cannot be found
- 48.Procedure in regard to perishable property seized under section 44
- 49.Appeal from orders under section 45, section 46, or section 47
- 50.Property when to vest in Government
- 51.Saving of power to release property seized
- 52.Penalty for counterfeiting marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary marks
- 53.Power to arrest without warrant
- 54.Power to release on bond a person arrested
- 55.Punishment of wrongful seizure or arrest
- 56.Power to prevent commission of offence
- 57.Power to try offences summarily
- 58.Operation of other laws not barred
- 58-A.Order of confiscation not to bar imposition of other penalty
- 59.Power to compound offences
- 60.Presumption that timber or forest produce belongs to the Central or State Government
CHAPTER VIII Cattle Trespass
CHAPTER IX Powers of Forest Officers
CHAPTER X Miscellaneous
- 66.Revision
- 67.Power of Government to exempt any area from the provisions of the Act
- 68.Power of Government to make rules
- 69.Government may delegate powers
- 70.Recovery of money due to Government
- 71.Land required under this Act to be deemed to be needed for public purpose under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894
- 72.Repeal