Notification of areas and control over them

Whenever it appears to the Government that in any area not constituted as a reserved forest under the Tamil Nadu Forest Act, 1882 (Tamil Nadu Act V of 1882), it is desirable to provide for the preparation and execution of any land improvement scheme or scheme for the conservation or improvement of sub-soil water or moisture or other soil or water resources or for the prevention or mitigation of soil erosion or the prevention of land degradation by wind or water, or the protection of reservoirs as against siltation, and the maintenance of any work, the Government may, by notification, declare the area to be a notified area for the purposes of this Act. In any such area or in any area in respect of which a notification has been issued under section 24 of the Tamil Nadu Forest Act, 1882 (Tamil Nadu Act V of 1882), or a notification has been issued under section 29 of that Act, the Government may, by notification, regulate, restrict or prohibit -- In section 13 of the principal Act, in sub-section (3), for clause (a), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:-- "(a) the Commissioner of Land Reforms, who shall be the Chairman, ex-officio;".