Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Powers to make rules for protected forests :– The State Government may make rules to control and regulate the following matters, namely; (a) the cutting, sawing, conversion and removal of trees and timber and the collection, manufacture and removal of forest produce, from protected forest; (b) the granting of licences to the inhabitants of towns and villages in the vicinity of protected forest to take trees, timber or other forest produce for their own use, and the production and return of such licences by such persons; (c) the granting of licences to persons for felling or removing trees or timber or other forest produce from such forests for the purposes of trade, and the production and return of such licences by such persons. (d) the payments, if to be made by the persons mentioned in Clauses (b) and (c) for permission to cut such trees, or to collect and remove such timber or other forest produce; (e) the other payment, if any to be made by them in respect of such trees, timber and other forest produce, and the places where such payment shall be made; (f) the examination of forest produce passing out of such forests; (g) the alienation, clearing and breaking up land for cultivation or other purposes in such forests; (h) the protection from fire of timber lying in such forests and of trees reserved under Section 34; (i) the cutting of grass and pasturing of cattle in such forests; (j) hunting, shooting, poisoning water, setting traps or snares and collection of wild life in such forests; (k) the protection and management of any portion of a forest notified under Section 34; and (l) the exercise of rights referred to in Section 33.