Section 35
Proclamation
―(1) When the period fixed under section 31 has elapsed and any claims have been disposed of, the Director shall, with the written approval of the Minister, publish in the Gazette, a
Proclamation to constitute the area specified in the notification referred to in section 31, a communal forest.
(2)
Such Proclamation shall―
(a)
provide a name for the communal forest;
(b)
specify the limits of the communal forest;
(c)
declare the date on which the Proclamation shall take effect;
(d)
state the rights and privileges admitted or conceded in respect of the said communal forest; and
(e)
state the special conditions, if any, governing the constitution of the said communal forest.
(3)
From the date so fixed, the area shall be a communal forest and shall, together with all the produce therein and all things found thereon, be set aside for the sole use of the native community, by whom it shall be maintained and controlled, subject only to the rights and privileges set out in the Proclamation and to the conditions of section 36.