Section 29. Power to issue notification

29. Power to issue notification— (a) reserving trees, (b) closing forest, (c) prohibiting collection of forest-produce, &c., and breaking up or clearing of land. 30. Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood. 31. Power to make rules for protected forests. 32. Penalties for acts in contravention of notification under section 29. 33. Nothing in this chapter to prohibit acts done in certain cases. --- 29. The Local Government may from time to time, by notification in the local official Gazette,— (a) declare any class of trees in a protected forest, or any trees in any such forest, to be reserved from a date fixed by such notification; (b) declare that a portion of such forest be closed for such term not exceeding twenty years as the Local Government thinks fit, and that the rights of private persons (if any) over such portion shall be suspended during such term: provided that the remainder of such forest be sufficient, and in a locality reasonably convenient, for the due exercise of the rights suspended in the portion so closed; (c) prohibit, from a date fixed as aforesaid, the quarrying of stone, or the burning of lime or charcoal