State Act
8
Section 8. Powers of Forest Settlement-officer.
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)
8. Powers of Forest Settlement-officer. For the purpose of such inquiry, the Forest Settlementofficer may exercise the following powers, that is to say:-- (a) power to enter, by himself or any officer authorised by him for the purpose, upon any land, and to survey, demarcate and make a map of the same; and (b) the powers of a Civil Court in the trial of suits.