Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
On certarn lands the breaking up M clearing for cu[iivation, etc., may be rtgulatrd or prohzbztFd.-( I) The Government, may, from time to time, by notification in the Gazette, regulate or prohibit in any forest or waste land not at the disposal of Government- ( a) the breaking up or clearing of land; or (b) the firing or clearing of vegetation; or (c) the pasturing of cattle; 30 when such regulation or prohibition appears to be necessary for any of the following purpo~es:- (l) for protection against storms, winds, rolling stones, floods and landslips; ( u) for the preservation of the soil on the ridges and slopes and in the valleys of h1lly tracts, the prevention of landshps and of the for· mation of ravmes and torrents and the pro tee tion of land agamst erosion or the deposit thereon of sand, stones or gravel; (iii) for the maintenance of water supply in springs, rivers and tanks; (iv) for the protection of roads, bridges, of commuuicatwn; and (v) for the pre.ervation of public health. canals and other lines Any such notification may be altered or cancelled by a like notification. (2) The Government may, for any such purpose, construct, at their o .vn expense, in or upon any such forest or land, such works as they tlunk lit. ( 3) No notification under sub-section (I) shall be issued, and no work under sub-section (2J c;hall be begun, until after the Issue of a notice to the owner of such forest or land, calling upon h1m to show cause, withm a reasonable penod to be specified m 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 Government.