The 96 sections of the Act are divided into 13 Chapters: Preliminary (I); Of Reserved Forests (II); Of Village Forests (III); Of Protected Forests (IV); Of the Control over Forests and Lands not being the Property of Government (V); Of the Duty on Timber and other Forest Produce (VI); Of the Control of Timber and other Forest Produce in Transit (VII); Of the Collection of Drift and Stranded Timber (VIII); Penalties and Procedure (IX); Cattle-trespass (X); Of Forest Officers (XI); Subsidiary Rule