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Powl!r to make rules.-( I) S:.~bject to all rights now vested in individuals and commumties by law or custom or usage havmg the force of law, the Government may make rules to regulate the use of the pasturage or of the natural produce of any land at the dtsposal of Government and not included in a Reserved Forest. Such rules may, with respect to such land- ( a) regulate or prohibit the clearing or breaking up of land for cultivatiOn or other purposes or putting up of sheds or other structures, or the planting of trees; (b) regulate or prohibit the kindling of fires and prescribe the precautions to be taken to prevent the spreading of fires; · (c) regulate or prohibit the cutting, sawing, conversion and re- moval of trees and timber and the collection and removal of natural produce; (d) regulate or prohibit the quarrying of stone, the boiling of catechu, the burning of lime or charcoal or the.dlStillmg of essential oils; • . .._ I I • 29 '(e) regulate or prohibit the cutting of grass and pasturing of cattle and regulate the payments, if any, to be made for such cutting or pasturing; (f) regulate or prohibit hunting, shooting, fishing, poisoning of water and setting traps or snares; (g) regulate the sale or free grant of timber or other natural produce; and (h) prescribe the fees, royalties or other payments for timber or other natural produce, and the manner tn which such fees, royalties or other payments shall be levied. And whoever commits an infringem::nt of any of those rules shall, on conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to impnsonmcnt for a term which may extend to six months, or to fi 1e which may extend to one hundred rupees, or to both. (2) If any agricultural or oth ~r crop is gr.:>wn or any shed or other structure 1s put up in c:mtraventiln of the rule5 framed under clause (a) of sub-section (I) of this sect!J:l an:i any per5on 1S conv1cted for that offence, su-:h crop or shd or oth~r stru::ture shall be liable to confiscdtion by mder of the convictmg Magistrate: Provided that the Glvernment may exempt any penon or class of persons from the operatton of all or any of these rules.