registered firm of four partners carrying on business in forest contract and timber. It filed a return disclosing income
then relied on AIR 1991 SC 672 where with retrospective effect forest contract which was subsisting was rescinded and the legislation which brought about this
work of Government
Departments or Government undertaking using forest produces
unless the Forest Department certifies that forest produces so
utilized were collected from legal sources ... certain contract provides that AGST (Vat),
forest royalty including under charges levied by forest department
on forest product can be deducted by the employer/ department
place of the creditor; not only through the medium of contract, but even by means of securities entered into without the knowledge of the surety ... required to pay the bid amount in four instalments. The forest contract rules provided for preventing the contractor from removing the forest goods in case
contract complying with Article 229 of the
Constitution. There was no statutory contract as the provisions of the
Kerala Forest Act and the rules made ... forest produce, or of expenses
incurred in the execution of this Act in respect of timber or forest
produce, or under any contract relating
Madhya Pradesh v. Kaluram , the Supreme Court considered a case of forest contract under which the Government demanded security and it was in terms ... forest contractor for any sum which may become payable by the forest contractor to the Governor by or under the conditions of the above contract
Contract Rules, 1966
2. All Forest Contracts to be subject to these Rules.
- All contracts whereby Government sell forest produce to a purchaser shall ... deemed to be binding on every forest contractor: Provided that the Forest Officer executing a forest contract shall have power to vary these Rules
forest
contractor advanced money to sub-contractor for cutting and moving the
trees. But the forest contract was not renewed. Accordingly, portion of the
advances ... essential that advances should be made. Without these advances,
the forest lessee might not be able to carry on the business. The advances
during
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of Rule 18 of Forest Contract Rules there applicable have been perused to
note that there was no such restrictions ... stop removal of forest produce is
held emanating from Section 83 of the Forest Act, 1927 and not from
contract between the parties. Here
Conservator of
Forests v. Rattan Singh [AIR 1967 SC 166 : 1966 Supp SCR 158] where
an identical clause in a forest contract entered into between ... Chief Conservator of Forests to
adjudicate upon disputes, inter alia, as to the performance or breach of
the contract. Apart from this, appellant herself