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The Indian Forest Act

42Penalty for breach of rules made under section 41

(1) The 1[State Government] may by such such rules prescribe as penalties for the contravention thereof imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or both.

(2) Such rules may provide that penalties which are double of those mentioned in sub-section (1) may be inflicted in cases where the offence is committed after sunset and before sunrise, or after preparation for resistance to lawful authority, or where the offender has been previously convicted of a like offence.

STATE AMENDMENT

Maharashtra

Amendment of section 42 of Act 16 of 1927.--In section 42 of the principal Act, in sub-section (1), for the words "two thousand rupees" the words "five thousand rupees" shall be substituted.

[Vide Maharashtra Act 21 of 2015, s. 4].

STATE AMENDMENT

Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh (UTs).--

Section 42.- In sub-section (1), for the words "six months" and "five hundred rupees", substitute the words "two years" and "twenty-five thousand rupees" respectively.

[Vide the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020, notification No. S.O. 1123(E) dated (18-3-2020) and Vide Union Territory of Ladakh Reorganisation (Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020, notification No. S.O.3774(E), dated (23-10-2020.]

Uttar Pradesh

Amendment of section 42--In section 42 of the principal Act, for sub-section (1), the following subsection shall be substituted, namely:--

"(1) The State Government may by such rules prescribe as penalties for the contravention thereof imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or fine which may extend to five thousand rupees or both."

[Vide Uttar Pradesh Act 1 of 2001, s. 5]

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