Chapter I - Preliminary

1. Short title and extent
2. Interpretation Clause

Chapter II - Of Reserved Forests

3. Power to reserve forests
4. Notification by States Government
5. Bar of accrual of forest rights
6. Proclamation by Forest Settlement officer
7. Inquiry by Forest Settlement officer
8. Powers of Forest Settlement officers
9. Extinction of rights
10. Treatment of claims relating to practice of shifting cultivations
11. Power to acquire land over which right is claimed
12. Order on claims to rights of pasture or to forest-produce
13. Record to be made by Forest Settlement-officer
14. Record where he admits claim
15. Exercise of rights admitted
16. Commutation of Rights
17. Appeal from order passed under section 11, section 12, section 15 or section 16
18. Appeal under section 17
19. Pleaders
20. Notification declaring forest reserved
21. Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood of forest
22. Power to revise arrangement made under section 15 or section 18
23. No right acquired over reserved forest, except as here provided
24. Rights not to be alienated without sanction
25. Power to stop ways and water courses in reserved forests
26. Acts prohibited in such forests
27. Power to declare forest no longer reserved

Chapter III - Of Village Forests

28. Formation of village-forests

Chapter IV - Of Protected Forests

29. Protected forests
30. Power to issue notification reserving trees, etc
31. Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood
32. Power to make rules for protected forests
33. Penalties for acts in contravention of notification under section 30 or of rules under section 32

Chapter V - Of the Control over Forests and Lands and being the Property of Government

35. Protection of forests for special purposes
36. Power to assume management of forests
37. Expropriation of forests in certain cases
38. Protection of forests at request of owners

Chapter VI - Of the duty on timber and other forest-produce

39. Power to impose duty on timber and other forest produce
40. Limit not to apply to purchase-money or royalty

Chapter VII - Of the control of timber and other forest-produce in transit

41. Power to make rules to regulate transit of forest produce
41A. Powers of Central Government as to movements of timber across customs frontiers
42. Penalty for breach of rules made under section 41
43. Government and Forest-officers not liable for damage to forest - produce at depot
44. All persons bound to aid in case of accidents at depot

Chapter VIII - Of the Collection of Drift and Stranded Timber

45. Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of Government until title thereto proved, and may be collected accordingly
46. Notice to claimants of drift timber
47. Procedure on claim preferred to such timber
48. Disposal of unclaimed timber
49. Government and its officers not liable for damage to such timber
50. Payments to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him
51. Power to make rules and prescribe penalties

Chapter IX - Penalties and Procedure

52. Seizure of property liable to confiscation
53. Power to release property seized under section 52
54. Procedure thereupon
55. Forest produce, tools, etc., when liable to confiscation
56. Disposal on conclusion of trial for forest offence, of produce in respect of which it was committed
57. Procedure when offender not known or cannot be found
58. Procedure as to perishable property seized under section 52
60. Property when to vest in Government
61. Saving of power to release property seized
62. Punishment for wrongful seizure
63. Penalty for counterfeiting or defacing marks on trees and timber and for altering bourndary-marks
64. Power to arrest without warrant
65. Power to release on a bond a person arrested
66. Power to prevent commission of offence
67. Power to try offences summarily
68. Power to compound offence
69. Presumption that forest-produce belongs to Government

Chapter X - Cattle Trespass

70. Cattle Trespass Act, 1871, to apply
71. Power to alter fines fixed under that Act

Chapter XI - Of Forest-officers

72. State Government may invest Forest-officers with certain powers
73. Forest officers deemed public servants
74. Ingenuity for acts done in good faith
75. Forest-officers not to trade

Chapter XII - Subsidiary Rules

76. Additional powers to make rules
77. Penalties for breach of rules
78. Rules when to have force of law

Chapter XIII - Miscellaneous

79. Persons bound to assist Forest-officers and Police-officers
80. Management of forests, the joint property of Government and other persons
81. Failure to perform service for which a share in produce of Government forest is enjoyed
82. Recovery of money due to Government
83. Lien on forest produce for such money
84. Land required under this Act to be deemed to be needed for a public purpose under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894
85. Recovery of penalties due under bond
85A. Saving for rights of Central Government
86. Repeals