Punjab Forest Act, 1999.
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Type of law
Legislation
Abstract
This Act shall apply to the whole of the Punjab Province. It provides rules with respect to reserved forests, waste lands, village forests, protected forests, and regulates the use of forest resources and the handling of timber.
Forest reserves shall be property of the Government and shall be managed by Forest Settlement Officers who may stop public or private ways or watercourses in reserved forests. The Act lays down acts which shall be prohibited in reserved forests. The text also provides for the assignment of forests to village communities. The Provincial Government shall regulate the management of village forests, prescribing the conditions under which the community may be provided with timber or other forest resources or pasture and their duties for the protection and improvement of such forests. The Act shall designate any forest land or waste land which is not a reserved forest to be a protected forest over which the Government has proprietary rights and shall regulate the use of forest produce. The Provincial Government shall have the power to control forest lands and waste lands which are not under their property in order to protect slopes, banks and beds of rivers, etc. The Act, among other things, provides for: duties on timber and other forest produce; control of timber and other forest produce in transit; collection of drift and stranded timber; cattle trespass; appointment of forest officers; and offences and penalties.
Forest reserves shall be property of the Government and shall be managed by Forest Settlement Officers who may stop public or private ways or watercourses in reserved forests. The Act lays down acts which shall be prohibited in reserved forests. The text also provides for the assignment of forests to village communities. The Provincial Government shall regulate the management of village forests, prescribing the conditions under which the community may be provided with timber or other forest resources or pasture and their duties for the protection and improvement of such forests. The Act shall designate any forest land or waste land which is not a reserved forest to be a protected forest over which the Government has proprietary rights and shall regulate the use of forest produce. The Provincial Government shall have the power to control forest lands and waste lands which are not under their property in order to protect slopes, banks and beds of rivers, etc. The Act, among other things, provides for: duties on timber and other forest produce; control of timber and other forest produce in transit; collection of drift and stranded timber; cattle trespass; appointment of forest officers; and offences and penalties.
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Long title of text
An Act to consolidate and amend the laws relating to forests, transit of forest produce, sale of timber, firewood, protection and conservation of land and natural resources, duty levied on timber and other forest produce, joint forest management and participation of stakeholders, management of public, communal and private forests, environmental and biodiversity concerns, wildlife and ecosystem management.
Date of text
Repealed
No
Source language
English
Legislation Amendment
No