81Failure to perform service for which a share in produce of Government forest is enjoyed.

81. Failure to perform service for which a share in produce of ²[Government] forest is employed.--If any person be entitled to a share in the produce of any forest which is the property of ²[Government] or over which the ²[Government] has proprietary rights or to any part of the forestproduce of which the Government is entitled upon the condition of duly performing any service connected with such forest, such share shall be liable to confiscation in the event of the fact being established to the satisfaction of the¹[State Government] that such service is no longer so performed:
Provided that no such share be confiscated until the person entitled thereto, and the evidence, if any, which he may produce in proof of the due performance of such service, have been heard by an officer duly appointed in that behalf by the¹[State Government] .