Section 18

Notwithstanding the provisions of any State law or the terms of the grant of any alienated land, the Chief Conservator shall have the right, upon payment of compensation for actual damage done to property but not in respect of the actual land concerned, to mark out over any alienated land a road or way to provide means of access or approach to a Forest Reserve and for the purpose of the removal from such Reserve of timber or other forest produce, whether by a public servant or by any person duly exercising any lawful right to remove such timber or forest produce, and in such case public servants in

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the course of their duties as such, persons as aforesaid, and their servants or agents, for the purposes of the removal of such timber and forest produce but not otherwise, shall be entitled to the use and benefit of such road or way in the same manner and to the same extent as if the said road or way were a public road or way.

Any person who obstructs or causes to be obstructed or attempts to obstruct or cause to be obstructed any forest officer in the exercise of the powers conferred by, or the lawful use of any road or way under, the provision of this section shall be guilty of an offence.

Endangering Forest Reserve by fire.