Section 31. The Local Government may from time to time make rules to regulate the following matters:

31. The Local Government may from time to time make rules to regulate the following matters:— (a) the cutting, sawing, conversion and removal of trees and timber, and the collection, manufacture and removal of forest-produce, from protected forests; (b) the granting of licenses 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 the production and return of such licenses by such persons; (c) the granting of licenses to persons felling or removing trees or timber or other forest-produce from such forests for the purposes of trade, and the production and return of such licenses by such persons; (d) the payments (if any) to be made by the persons mentioned in clauses (b) and (c) of this section, for permission to cut such trees, or to collect and remove such timber or other forest-produce; (e) the other payments, if any, to be made by them in respect of such trees, timber and produce, and the places where such payments 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 under section twenty-nine; and breaking-up or clearing of land. Publication of translation of such notification in neighbourhood. Power to make rules for protected forests. 68 Forests. [ACT VII (i) the cutting of grass and pasturing of cattle in such forests; (j) killing or catching elephants, hunting, shooting, fishing, poisoning water, and setting traps or snares in such forests; (k) the protection and management of any portion of a forest closed under section twenty-nine; (l) the exercise of rights referred to in section twenty-eight.