Section 32
Power to make rules for protected forests.-The 1 ( 2 may make rules to regulate the following rn..atters, namely :-
32. Power to make rules for protected forests.-The 1 ( 2 may make rules to regulate the following rn..atters, namely :-
(a) the cutting, sawing, conversion and removal of trees and timber, and the . r colJection, manufactur· and removal of forest-produce, from protected foresti ;
(b) the granting of licences to the inhabitants of towns and villages in the vicinity of protected forests to take trees, timber or other forest-produce for their own use, and tiie production and return of such licences by such person ;
(c) the granting of licences to persons felling or removing trees or timber or other forest-produce from such forest~ for the purposes of trade, and the production and return of such licences by such persons ;
(d) the payments, if any to be mad,e by the persons mentioned in clauses (b) and (c) for permission to cut such trees, or to collect and remove such timber
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or other forest-produce ; ·
(e) the other p~yments, if any. to be made by them in respect of such trees, timber and produce, and the places where such payment shall be made ;
(f) the examination of forest-produce passing out of such forests ;
(g) the clearing and breaking up of land for cultivation or other purposes .
in such forests ;
(h), the protection from fire of timber lying in such forests and of trees reserved
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under section 30 ; ·
0) the cutting of grass and pasturing of cattle in such forests ; U)
) g gpg ; U) hunting, shooting, fishing, poisoning water and setting traps or snares in such foresu, and the kilJing or catching of elephants in such forests in areas iB which the Elephants Preservation Act . 1879 is not in force ;
(k) the protection and management of any portion of a forest closed under section 30 ; and
(/) the exercise of rights referred to in section 29.