State Act
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Section 43. Governments and Forest-officers not liable for damage to forest-produce at depot.
In forceAndaman and Nicobar Islands, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Lakshadweep, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Odisha, Puducherry, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal (State Act)
43. Governments and Forest-officers not liable for damage to forest-produce at depot. The1[Government] shall not be responsible for any loss or damage which may occur in respect of any timber or other forest-produce while at a depot established under a rule made under section 41, or while detained elsewhere, for the purposes of this Act; and no Forest-officer shall be responsible for any such loss or damage, unless he causes such loss or damage negligently, maliciously or fraudulently.