Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
The Local Government may from time to time, by notification in the local official Gazette,-- (a) reserving trees, declare any class of trees in a protected forest, or any trees in any such forest, to be reserved from a date fixed by such notification; closing forest, (b) closing forest, declare that a portion of such forest be closed for such term not exceeding twenty years as the Local Government thinks fit, and that the rights of private persons (if any) over such portion shall be suspended during such term: provided that the remainder of such forest be sufficient, and in a locality reasonably convenient, for the due exercise of the rights suspended in the portion so closed; (c) Prohibiting collection of forest produce, &c., and breaking up or clearing of land.-- prohibit, from a date fixed as aforesaid, the quarrying of stone, or the burning of lime or char. coal, or the collection or subjection to any manufacturing process, or removal, of any forest-produce, in any such forest, and the breaking up or clearing for cultivation, for building, for herding cattle or for any other purpose, any land in any such forest: and (d) alter or cancel such declaration or prohibition.