Power to make rules.

(1) The State Government may make rules to regulate the following matters in respect of reserved forests, namely: - (a) the making of fresh clearings for cultivation or for any other purpose; (b) the continuance of the practice of shifting cultivation; (c) the grazing of cattle or the carrying of forest produce by persons who so claim to the right of pasture or right to forest produce or right of way or water course is admitted under Section 12. (d) the kindling, keeping or carrying of fire; (e) the felling, uprooting, tapping, girdling sawing conversion and removal of trees and timber and, the collection, manufacture and removal of forest produce, from such forests; (f) the examination of forest produce passing out of such forests; (g) the protection from fire of timber, charcoal or other produce lying in such forests and of trees; (h) the cutting of grass and pasturing of cattle in such forests; (i) hunting, shooting, fishing, poisoning water and setting trap or snares in such forests; (j) generally for carrying out the purposes of the Act. (2) The State Government may prescribe as penalties for the contravention of any rules made under this Section, imprisonment for a norm which may extend, to six months, or fine which may extend to five hundred rupees or both.