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Section 21. Power of Forest Settlement Officer
THE UNITED PROVINCES PRIVATE FORESTS ACT, 1948
In forceUttar Pradesh (State Act)
21. For the purposes of such inquiry the Forest Settlement Officer may exercise the following powers, that is to say- (a) power to enter, by himself or to authorise any officer to enter 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.