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The Private Forests Ordinance, 1959 (East Pakistan Ordinance)

( Ordinance NO. XXXIV OF 1959 )

Chapter VII

MISCELLANEOUS

Recovery of money due to Regional Forest Officer and lien on forest-produce for such money
60. (1) All money payable to a Regional Forest Officer under this Ordinance or under any rule made under this Ordinance, other than money payable in respect of the cost of management of a vested forest, and all money payable to such officer on account of the price of any forest-produce or on account of expenses incurred in the execution of this Ordinance, in respect of such produce shall, if not paid when due, be recoverable as a public demand under the 1[* * *] Public Demands Recovery Act, 1913.
 
 
 
 
(2) When any such money is payable for or in respect of any forest-produce, the amount thereof shall be deemed to be a first charge on such produce and such produce may be taken possession of by a Regional Forest Officer until such amount has been paid.
 
 
 
 
(3) If such amount is not paid when due, the Regional Forest Officer may sell such produce in the prescribed manner, and after payment of the costs of the sale the proceeds thereof shall be applied first in discharging such amount.
 
 
(4) The surplus, if any, if not claimed within two months from the date of the sale by the person entitled thereto, shall be forfeited to the Government.

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