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Section 6. Forest rights

The rights to trees reserved by the Code, the Indian Forest Act, 1927 (XVI of 1927), or any other law for the time being in force shall vest in the State Government and nothing in this Act shall affect the right of the State Government to apply the provisions of the Indian Forest Act, 1927 (XVI of 1927), as in force 1[in the pre-Reorganisation State of Bombay, excluding the transferred territories] to forests in any kauli or katuban land.

1Superscript markers show text inserted or substituted by a later amendment. The Act carries the markers without the footnotes they refer to, so they are shown without a target.