Section 8: Powers of Forest Settlement-Officers

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8. Powers of Forest Settlement-Officers.— For the purpose of such inquiry, the Forest Settlement-officer may exercise the following powers, that is to say:___ (a) power to enter, by himself or any officer authorised by him for the purpose, upon any land, and to survey, demarcate and make a map of the same; and (b) the powers of a Civil Court in the trial of suits.

Effective date: 1927-01-01

Related sections

Section 7: Inquiry by Forest Settlement-officer Section 9: Extinction of rights Section 6: Proclamation by Forest Settlement-officer Section 10: Treatment of claims relating to practice of shifting cultivation Section 5: Bar of accrual of forest-rights Section 11: Power to acquire land over which right is claimed

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