Keyword(s):
Chief Conservator of Forests, Conservator of Forests, Divisional Forest
Officer, Forest Offence, Forest Officer, Forest Produce, Range Officer, River,
Sandalwood
AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE AND AMEND THE LAWS
RELATING TO THE PROTECTION AND MANAGE-
MENT OF FORESTS IN THE -STATE
J3e.it enacterl .by the Legislature of the State of
‘,Orissa in the-Twenty-third ,Year of,the Republic of
CHAPTER L
,PRELIMINARY
4.(4) This Act may be ~illed)the Orissa Forest Short title.
commence- extent and
::India,as:folIows :-
4 ct, 1972.
Dcfinitins
(2) It extends to the wh6le of the State ofment
.Orissa.
(3) It shall come into force at once.
- Tn this Act, unless the context otherwise
requires-
(a) ” cattle ” means cows, oxen, bulls, and
calves and incIudes eIephants, csrnels,
buffaloes, horses, mares, geldings, ponies,
co!ts, fillies, mules, nsses, pigs, rams, en7es,
sheep, -lamb?, goats, krds and such
other kind df -animals as the State
Government may;:by not%cation, specify;
j(b) “,Gbief Conservator ,nF Forests ” means
the Forest Officer in charge of all the
forests in the Statc who supervises and
col~trolsthe work of other Forest Oficers;
.Conservator of Farests “means a Forest
Officer in charge of a:Forest Circle;
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(d) ” Divisional -Forest .Offcer ” means any
Forest Officer in :cIl~rgeof any Polvest
Division;
- For St~IerncntofObjcctsand Reasnns, see Orisso Gazette Extraordinary
-dated the 23rd Jtsiy 1971 ( NO.908 ) and for Report of Sclect Committee sec
-jbrrl., daled tho Zrd Janvary, 1972 (No.5-A).
!(c)THEORISSAFORESTACT, 1972
[Or. Act
(e) “forest offence “means an oRence punish-
able under this Act or under the rules
and includes the abetment of a forest
offence;
If)” forest officer “means any person appoin-
ted by the State Government or by any
officer empowered by them in this behalf-
(i) to be a Chief Conservator of Forests,
Conservator of Forests, Deputy
Conservator of Forests, Assistant
Conservator of Forests, Forest Ranger,
Deputy Ranger, Forester or Forest
Guard ;and
(ii) such other persons who are notified
by the State Government to perform
any function of a Forest OBcer
under this Act or any rule or order
made thereunder but does not include
a Forest SettIernent Officer ;
{g) ” forest produce “includes-
(i) the following whether found in, or
brought from a forest or not, that is
to say-
(cr) timber, charcoal, caoutchoucr
catechu, wood-oiI, resin, natural
varnish, bark, Tussar Cocoon, lac,
gums, roots of Patal Garuda, mohua
flowers, mohua seeds, myrabolans,
kendu leaves, sandalwood, tamarind,
hill-broom, siali leaves, sial fibres,
sal seeds;
(6)wild animals and wild birds,
skins, tusks,horns, bones and all
other parts or produce of wild life;
and
(c) such other produce as may be
notified by the State Government;
and
(ii) the following when found in or
brought from a forest, that is to say-
(@)trees and leaves, flowers and fruits
and all other parts or produce of
trees not hereinbeforc mentioned;
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