Appropriation of cultivated lands

All lands not built upon or cultivated which may be required for the purposes of opening any new forest road or for diverting, turning, widening or enlarging any existing forest road or any existing road which has been declared to be a forest road in the execution of any such Order of the Minister as provided for in section 31, may be absolutely taken and appropriated without tender or payment by way of compensation and shall vest in the Government without any formal transfer thereof, Provided that– (a) notice of the terms of the application of the Chief Forest Officer as mentioned in section 31(1) shall be inserted in the Gazette at least four weeks previously to the date of the Order of the Minister; (b) where a forest road is closed by Order of the Minister any land required for the purposes of such road and which is vested in the Government under this section shall revert to the person from whom it was appropriated.