Section 29
Revocation of forest reserve and protected forest
―(1) The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, direct that, from a date to be fixed by such notification, any forest reserve or protected forest, or any part thereof, shall cease to be reserved or protected.
(2)
From the date so fixed―
(a)
such a forest reserve or protected forest or part thereof shall cease to be reserved or protected, but the rights or privileges which have been extinguished therein shall not be revived; and
(b)
any subsisting rights or privileges shall be deemed to be extinguished, and any person affected by such extinguishment may submit his claim for compensation to the Regional Forests
Officer within thirty days from the date of publication of the notification.
(3)
Sections 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 shall apply mutatis mutandis in relation to any claim for the amount of the compensation submitted under this section.
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