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The Local Government may from, time to time, by notification in the local official Gazette, regulate or prohibit in any forest or waste-land-- (a) the breaking-up or clearing of land for cultivation; (b) the pasturing of cattle; (c) the firing or clearing of the vegetation; when such regulation or prohibition appears necessary for any of the following purposes:-- First.--For protection against storms, winds, rolling stones, floods and avalanches; Second.--For the preservation of the soil on the ridges and slopes, and in the valleys, of hilly tracts, the prevention of landslips and of the formation of ravines and torrents, and the protection of land against erosion, or the deposit thereon of sand, stones or gravel; Third.--For the maintenance of a water-supply in springs, rivers and tanks; Fourth.--For the protection of roads, bridges, railways and other lines of communication; Fifth.--For the preservation of the public health; and may alter or cancel such notification. The Local Government may, for any such purpose, construct at its own expense, in or upon any forest or waste-land, such work as it thinks fit: Provided that no such notification shall be made or work begun until after the issue of a notice to the owner of such forest or land, calling on him to shew cause, within a reasonable period to be specified in such notice, why such notification should not be made or work constructed, and until his objections (if any) and any evidence he may produce in support of the same have been heard, by an officer duly appointed in that behalf, and have been considered by the Local Government.