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  "title": "PUNJAB FOREST (SALE OF TIMBER) ACT, 1913",
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  "text": "THE PUNJAB FOREST (SALE OF TIMBER) ACT, 1913 \r\n(III of 1913) \r\nCONTENTS \r\n1. Short title, extent and commencement. \r\n2. Meaning of terms. \r\n3. Power to make rules regulating sale of timber and th e establishment of \r\nsale depots. \r\n4. Application of Chapter X of Indian Forest Act. \r\n5. Indemnity for acts done in good faith. \r\n  \r\nTEXT \r\n1\r\nTHE PUNJAB FOREST (SALE OF TIMBER) ACT, 1913 \r\n(III of 1913) \r\n[21 March 1913] \r\nAn \r\nAct \r\nto provide for the control of the sale of timber and the establishment of sale depots \r\nfor such timber in the Punjab. \r\n WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the control of the sale of timber and \r\nthe establishment of sale depots for such\r\n2\r\n timber in the Punjab; \r\n It is hereby enacted as follows:– \r\n1. Short title, extent and commencement.– This Act may be called the Punjab \r\nForest (Sale of Timber) Act, 1913. \r\n It shall extend to such local areas as the \r\n3\r\n[Provincial Government] may by \r\nnotification\r\n4\r\n in the \r\n5\r\n[Official Gazette] direct; and it shall come into force in each of \r\nsuch areas on such day as the \r\n6\r\n[Provincial Government] in like manner directs\r\n7\r\n in this \r\nbehalf. \r\n2. Meaning of terms .– In this Act all expressions shall have the  meaning \r\nassigned to them in the \r\n8\r\n[Forest Act, 1927]. \r\n3. Power to make rules regulating sale of timber and the establishment of \r\nsale depots.– (1) The \r\n9\r\n[Provincial Government] may, by notification\r\n1\r\n in the \r\n2\r\n[Official \r\n \r\n1This Act received the assen t of the Lieutenant -Governor of the Punjab on 12th February 1913; and that of the Governor -\r\nGeneral on 6th March 1913 and was published in the Punjab Gazette Part -V, dated March 21, 1913. For Statement of Objects \r\nand Reasons, see Punjab Gazette, 1912, Part V, p. 92; for Report of the Select Committee, see Punjab Gazette, 1912, Part V, \r\np. 225; for Proceedings in Council, see Punjab Gazette, 1912, Part V, p. 134, and ibid., 1913, Part V, p. 5. \r\n2Printed as “sum” in the original Gazette Part-V, dated March 21, 1913. \r\n3Substituted for the words “Local Government” by the Government of India (Adaptation of Indian Laws) Order,  1937, published \r\nin the Gazette of India (Extraordinary), dated 01.04.1937, pp. 75-344. \r\n4See the Punjab Forest Manual, Vol -I, Chapter VI, at Sr.  No. 29, under the heading “Rules describing the tracts to which the \r\nPunjab Forest (Sale of Timber) Act, 1913 shall apply under section 1 of that Act”, Notification No. 17415-Forests, dated the 14th \r\nJune 1923 and amended by Notification No. 14697 -Forests, dated 11th May 1927, p. 43 and published in the Punjab Gazette, \r\nPart I, dated 14th June, 1923, p. 517.  \r\n5Substituted for the words “local official Gazette” by the Government of India (Adaptation of Indian Laws) Order, 1937, \r\npublished in the Gazette of India (Extraordinary), dated 01.04.1937, pp. 75-344. \r\n6Substituted for the words “Local Government” by the Order ibid. \r\n7See the Punjab Forest Manual, Vol -I, Chapter VI, at Sr. No. 29, under the heading “Rules describing the tracts to which the \r\nPunjab Forest (Sale of Timber) Act, 1913 shall apply under section 1 of that Act”, Notification No. 17415-Forests, dated the 14th \r\nJune 1923 and amended by Notification No. 14697 -Forests, dated 11th May 1927, p. 43 and published in the Punjab Gazette, \r\nPart I, dated 14th June, 1923, p. 517.  \r\n8Substituted for the words, comma and figures “Indian Forest Act, 1878” by the Punjab Forest ( Sale of Timber) (Amendment) \r\nOrdinance, 2001 (Punjab Ordinance No. XXXV of 2001), dated 5 th November, 2001, published in the Punjab Gazette \r\n(Extraordinary), dated November 5, 2001, pp. 1765-1766.  \r\n9Substituted for the words “Local Government” by the Governm ent of India (Adaptation of Indian Laws) Order, 1937, published \r\nin the Gazette of India (Extraordinary), dated 01.04.1937, pp. 75-344. \r\nGazette], make rules to regulate the sale of timber and the establishment of sale \r\ndepots for such timber. \r\n Such rules may among other matters– \r\n(a) prescribe the classes of timber to which the rules shall apply; \r\n(b) define what shall be deemed to be a sale depot; \r\n(c) provide for the establishment, registration, regulation and ins pection of \r\nsale depots, and the levy of fees for registration; prescribe the period \r\nfor which registration shall hold good and the co nditions under which \r\ntimber may be brought to, stored at, sold at, and removed from sale \r\ndepots; and prohibit the sale of t imber at or the establishment or \r\nmaintenance of unregistered sale depots; \r\n(d) regulate the use of sale depot marks and the registrati on of such \r\nmarks; prescribe the time for which registration shall hold good; and \r\nprovide for the levy of fees for registration; \r\n(e) prescribe the registers to be maintained at sale depots, and provide for \r\nthe production of such registers before and for their examination by any \r\nforest or police officer authorized in this behalf by the Divisional Forest \r\nOfficer or by the District Superintendent of Police, respectively; \r\n(f) prescribe as penalties for the infringement of any rule made under this \r\nsection impriso nment which may extend to six months or fine which \r\nmay extend to Rs. 500 or both. Double penalties may be inflicted \r\nwhere t he offence is committed after sunset and before sunrise, or \r\nafter preparation for resistance to lawful\r\n3\r\n authority, or if the offender  \r\nhas been previously convicted of a like offence. \r\n(2) All rules made under sub -section (1) shall be so made after previous \r\npublication in the \r\n4\r\n[Official Gazette]. \r\n4. Application of Chapter X of Indian Forest Act .– The provisions of Chapter \r\nX of the \r\n5\r\n[Forest Act, 1927], with the exception of section 67, shall apply so far as \r\nmay be to any infringement of the rules make under th is Act as if such infringement \r\nwere a forest offence under the \r\n6\r\n[Forest Act, 1927]. \r\n5. Indemnity for acts done in good faith .– No suit shall lie against any public \r\nservant for anything done by him in good faith under this Act. \r\n \r\n1See the Punjab Forest Manual, Vol-I, Chapter VI at Sr. 28 under the heading “Rules under the Punjab Forest (Sale of Timb er) \r\nAct, 1913”, and “Rules regarding the registration of Timber Depots under section 3 of the Punjab Forest (Sale of Timber) Act,  \r\n1913 (III of 1 913), by Notification No. 1436, dated 12 th January 1923 and amended by Notification No. 14696, dated 11 th May \r\n1927, pp. 41-43 and published in the Punjab Gazette, Part I, dated 19th January, 1923, p. 62. \r\n2Substituted for the words “local official Gazette” by the Government of India (Adaptation of Indian Laws) Order, 1937, \r\npublished in the Gazette of India (Extraordinary), dated 01.04.1937, pp. 75-344. \r\n3Printed as “lawulf” in the original Gazette Part-V, dated March 21, 1913. \r\n4Substituted for the word “Gazet te” by the Government of India (Adaptation of Indian Laws) Order, 1937, published in the \r\nGazette of India (Extraordinary), dated 01.04.1937, pp. 75-344. \r\n5Substituted for the words, comma and figures “Indian Forest Act, 1878” by the Punjab Forest (Sale of T imber) (Amendment) \r\nOrdinance, 2001 (Punjab Ordinance No. XXXV of 2001), dated 5 th November, 2001, published in t he Punjab Gazette \r\n(Extraordinary), dated November 5, 2001, pp. 1765-1766. \r\n6Ibid.",
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