Indian Forest Act, 1927
30. Power
to issue notification reserving trees, etc . –
The State Government may, by notification in
the Official Gazette:
a) declare any trees or class of trees in a
protected forest to be reserved from a date fixed by the notification;
b) declare that any portion of such forest
specified in the notification shall be closed for such term, not exceeding
thirty years, as the State Government thinks fit, and that the rights of private
persons, if any, over such portion shall be suspended during such terms,
provided that the remainder of such forest be sufficient, and in a locality
reasonably convenient, for the due exercise of the right suspended in the
portion so closed; or
c) prohibit, from a date fixed as aforesaid,
the quarrying of stone, or the burning of lime or charcoal, or the collection
or subjection to any manufacturing process, or removal of, any forest-produce
in any such forest, and the breaking up or clearing for cultivation, for
building, for herding cattle or for any other purpose, of any land in any such
forest.