• This Act may be called the Indian Forest Act, 1921.
  • It extends to the whole of India except the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States.
  • It applies to the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in the States of Bihar, Bombay, Coorg, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Punj Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal; but the Government of any State may by notification in Official Gazette bring this Act into force2 in the whole or any specified part of that State which this Act extends and where it is not in force.
  • Cattle includes elephants, camels, buffaloes, horses, mares, geldings, ponies colts, fillies, mules, asses, pigs, rams, ewes, sheep, lambs, goats and kids;
  • Forest-officer means, any person whom 3 [* * *] the State Government or any office empowered by 3 [* * *] the State Government in this behalf, may appoint to carry out all any of the purposes of this Act or to do anything required by this Act or any rule m thereunder to be done by a Forest-officer;
  • Forest-offence means an offence punishable under this Actor under any rule made thereunder;
  • Forest-produce includes
    (a) the following whether found in, or brought from, a forest or not, that is to say timber, charcoal, caoutchouc, catechu, wood-oil, resin, natural varnish, bark, lac, mahua flowers, mahua seeds,4[kuth] and myrabolams, and
    (b) the following when found in, or brought from a forest, that is to say(i) trees and leaves, flowers and fruits, and all other parts or produce not herein before mentioned, of trees,
    (ii) plants not being trees (including grass, creepers, reeds and moss), and all parts or produce of such plants,
    (iii) wild animals and skins, tusks, horns, bones, silk, cocoons, honey and wax, and all other parts or produce of animals, and
    (iv) peat, surface soil, rock and minerals (including lime-stone, laterite, mineral oils, and all products of mines or quaries);
    5[(4A) ownee includes a Court of Wards in respect of property under the superintendence or charge of such Court;]
  •  River includes any stream, canal, creek or other channels, natural or artificial;
  • Timber includes trees, when they have fallen or have been felled, and all wood whether cut up or fashioned or hollowed out for any purpose or not; and
  • Tree includes palms, bamboos, skumps, brush-wood and canes.

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