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Section 9
The Maharashtra Merged Territories and Areas (Jagirs Abolition) Act.Maharashtra

Section 9. Right to trees

The rights to trees specially reserved under the Indian Forest Act, 1927 (XVI of 1927) or any other law for the time being in force, except those the ownership of which has been transferred by the State Government under any contract, grant or law for the time being in force, shall vest in the State Government and nothing in this Act shall in any way affect the right of the State Government to apply the provisions of the Indian Forest Act, 1927 (XVI of 1927), as in force in the 1[pre-Reorganisation State of Bombay, excluding the transferred territories] to forests in a Jagir Village.

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.