72. (1) The Government may invest any Forest-officer with all or any of the following powers, that is to say:- (a) power to enter upon any land and to survey, demarcate and make a map of the same; (b) the powers of a Civil Court to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents and material objects; (c) power to issue a search-warrant under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898; and (d) power to hold an inquiry into forest-offences, and, in he course of such inquiry, to receive and record evidence. (2) Any evidence recorded under clause (d) of sub-section (1) shall be admissible in any subsequent trial before a Magistrate, provided that it has been taken in the presence of the accused person.

73. All Forest-officers shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of the ¹[Penal Code].

74. No suit shall lie against any public servant for anything done by him in good faith under this Act ²[and no court may try such a public servant for a crime stemming from actions related to the public servant's official duty under this Act and occurring within the public servant's assigned geographical jurisdiction, unless the court first conducts a preliminary inquiry and verifies that there is credible evidence to support the basic elements of the complaint].

75. Except with the permission in writing of the Government, no Forest-officer shall, as principal or agent, trade in timber or other forest-produce, or be or become interested in any lease of any forest or any forest or in any contract for working any forest, whether in or outside Bangladesh.