Section 43
Substitution of section 91
of National Forestry (Amendment) Act 2022
The principal Act is amended by substituting for section 91
the following section:
“Search without warrant
Quoted provision
Section 91
If it appears to a forest officer not below the rank of
Forester, an authorized officer or a police officer that there is reasonable cause to believe that in any premises or any State land, mining land, reserved land, alienated land or land under temporary occupation licence there is concealed or deposited any evidence in respect of which a forest offence is being or has been committed, and if he has reasonable grounds for believing that by reason of the delay in obtaining a warrant under section 90 the evidence is likely to be tampered
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with, removed, damaged or destroyed, he may exercise in, upon, and in respect of the premises or State land, mining land, reserved land, alienated land or land under temporary occupation licence all the powers mentioned in section 90
as if he were authorized to do so by a warrant issued under that section.”.