Section 24 of the Indian Forest Act, 1927 – Rights not to be alienated without sanction

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Section 24: Rights not to be alienated without sanction

  • (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 23, no right continued under clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 15 shall be alienated by way of grant, sale, lease, mortgage or otherwise, without the sanction of the 1[State Government]: Provided that, when any such right is appendant to any land or house, it may be sold or otherwise alienated with such land or house.
  • (2) No timber or other forest-produce obtained in exercise of any such right shall be sold or bartered except to such extent as may have been admitted in the order recorded under section 14.

Source: official text of The Indian Forest Act, 1927 as published on India Code (PDF). All sections of the Indian Forest Act, 1927.

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