53. (1) The Government may invest any Regional Forest Officers with all or any of the following powers, that is to say:-(a) power to enter upon any land, or to authorise any officer to enter thereon with servants and workmen, and to survey, demarcate and make a map of the same;(b) the power of 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 the 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.

54. It shall be lawful for any officer authorised either generally or specially in this behalf by the Regional Forest Officer to enter with his subordinates and servants and workmen at any time upon any part of a controlled forest for the purpose of ascertaining whether there has been any violation of an approved working plan and to do any other acts which are in his opinion necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Ordinance.

55. All Forest Officers shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of section 21 of the ¹[* * *] Penal Code.

56. No suit shall lie against any public servant for anything done by him in good faith under this Ordinance.