Sec 53 (Chapter VI Formation of State Forests)The Jammu and Kashmir Land Revenue Act, 1996
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53. Formation of State forests from excess waste land.––
When in the opinion of a Settlement Officer or any Assistant Collector of the first class empowered in this behalf by a general or special order of the Government, the waste land included in or adjoining an estate is so extensive as to exceed the reasonable requirements of the land holders of the estate with reference to past urage or extention of cultivation or otherwise, the Settlement Officer or such Assistant Collector may at any time cause the excess area to be demarcated as a State forest in accordance with the Forest Demarcation Rules in force, at the time, on such conditions, as to payment of compensation or otherwise, as the Government may direct :
Provided that no compensation shall he payable to any person solely on account of the formation of a State forest from waste land owned by the 3 [Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir].
* Now Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (30 of 2013).
1. Substituted for “ASSESSMENT” by Act X of 2005, s. 2, w.e.f. 10th May, 2005.
2. Sections 41 to 52 omitted ibid.
3. Substituted by S.O. 3808(E) dated 26.10.2020 for “State”
