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Power to make rules for district forests.—(1) Subject to all rights now legally vested in individuals and communities, the State Government may, for any district or portion of a district, make rules to regulate the use of the forest produce or of the pasturage of any land at the disposal of Government and not included in a reserved or village forest. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power such rules may,— (i) declare that certain trees not classed as reserved trees shall be granted to cultivating raiyats on favourable rates of seigniorage; (ii) provide for placing any area at the disposal of Government under special protection in view of its subsequent settlement and constitution as a reserved forest or for any other purpose, and prescribe the conditions and penalties attendant on such special protection; (iii) regulate or prohibit the grant of land and its clearing and breaking up for cultivation or other purposes; 1[(iiia) prohibit unauthorised occupation of land for any purpose;]1