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Section 41C

of Forest Enactment 1968

State EnactmentIn forceProvision 69 of 71

Section 41C

No action or prosecution shall be brought, instituted or maintained in any court against any forest officer, police officer or member of the armed forces either personally or in his official capacity for or on account of or in respect of any act ordered or done by him or purporting to have been ordered or done by him for the purpose of carrying into effect this Enactment, and no suit or prosecution shall lie in any court against any other person for or on account of or in respect of any act done or purporting to have been done by him under order, direction or instruction of any forest officer, police officer or member of the armed forces given for any such purpose as aforesaid:

Provided that the act of such officer or person was done in good faith and in the reasonable belief that it was necessary for the purpose intended to be served thereby.

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