Chapter II
                            
                            
                        
                    
                    
                        
                            
                            OF RESERVED FORESTS
                            
                            
                        
                    
                 
            
            
                
                
            
            
                
                    
                    
                    
                    
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        	Power to declare forest no longer reserved
                        
                        
                    
                    
                    
                    
                
            
            
                
                27. (1) The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, direct that, from a date fixed by such notification, any forest or any portion thereof reserved under this Act shall cease to be a reserved forest.
 
 
(2) From the date so fixed, such forest or portion shall cease to be reserved; but the rights (if any) which have been extinguished therein shall not revive in consequence of such cessation. 
                
                
                
                
                
                
            
 
        
        
            
        
        
        
        
    
    
    
        
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