Regulations for the protection of forest produce

(1) The Minister may from time to time make regulations, either of general application or confined to particular forest reserves or other areas of national land, or of private land to which it has been decided to apply any of the provisions of this Act in accordance with section 9 for the protection of trees and forest produce being in or upon such reserve or other area, and in particular may prohibit any person as regards such reserve or other area from– (a) felling, girdling, lopping, tapping, burning, injuring or removing any trees; (b) squatting, residing, building huts or cattle enclosures; (c) setting fire to any grass or undergrowth, or kindling or carrying any fire, or leaving any fire burning in such manner as to endanger trees or forest produce; (d) grazing or pasturing cattle, or permitting cattle to trespass; 10 (e) hunting, shooting, fishing, trapping, poisoning water or using explosives to destroy fish, clearing, cultivating or breaking up of land for cultivation or other purposes; (f) clearing, cultivating or breaking up of land for cultivation or other purposes; (g) quarrying stone, burning lime or charcoal or collecting, manufacturing or removing any except at such seasons and upon such terms and conditions and upon payment of such fees and royalties as may from time to time be prescribed. (2) Nothing in any regulations made under sub-section (1) of this section, shall be construed to prohibit any act done in exercise of any right recognised and recorded in respect of a forest reserve, or with the permission in writing of the Chief Forest Officer or of any forest officer empowered to grant such permission. (3) Notwithstanding anything in this or any other Act, the Minister may by Order– (a) prohibit export or import of, and any dealings in, wild animals or products of wild animals, plants and spices; (b) prescribe fees, royalty, duty of any kind, for exporting or importing of, and dealings in, wild animals and products of wild animals, plants and spices and require payment of the fees, royalty, duty, so prescribed; (c) revoke, suspend, increase or reduce fees, royalty, duty, prescribed. 11 (4) An Order made under sub-section (3), may prescribe penalties for contravention of any provision thereof.