(1) The State Government may, with a view to preventing deforestation, make rules regulation to control and management of the forest-growth on the land of any estate or village and the exercise of any right of user over such forest growth and may attach to the beach of such rules a penalty not exceeding one thousand rupees or, if the breach be a continuing one, penalty not exceeding hefty rupees for each day during which such breach continues :
Provided that the penally prescribed in the rules shall be imposed only by a criminal court of competent jurisdiction
(2) Such court may direct that the whole or any part of any sum recovered under the rules made under sub-section (1) shall be paid as compensation to any person or persons to whom loss or injury has been caused or that it shall be expended in such manner, the Collector may deem fit for the benefit of the forest-growth.
(3) The court referred to in proviso to sub-section (1) may confiscate and sell any timber or other forest produce cut or removed in contravenh`on of any rule made under sub-section (1), and may apply the proceeds of the sale to either or both of the purposes mentioned in sub-section (2).
(4) If an estate holder or any other person is guilty of any material violation of the rules made under sub-section (1), the Collector may, unless he is satisfied that such estate-holder or other person has taken reasonable precautions to prevent such violation and after full inquiry and after giving to the estate- holder or other person, a reasonable opportunity of being heard -
(a) Proclaim that the forest-growth of the estate or vi//age will be protected by the State Government, or
(b) issue notice to such estate-holder or other person to show cause, within a reasonable time to be specified in the notice, why he should not be excluded from the possession of the forest land.
(5) Until the proclamation made under sub-section (4) clause (a) is with-drawn, it shall be unlawful for any person to cut, or cause to be cut, for sale or for conveyance or use outside the village .area, any timber or brushwood, save with the previous sanction of the Collector and in the manner and to the extent permitted by him.
(6) If insufficient cause is shown against an order under sub- section (4) clause (b), the Collector may exclude such estate- holder or other person from the possession of the forest land and assume the direct management thereof for a term to be fixed by him :
Provided that the gross income of the land, of which the direct management is so assumed shall be paid by the Collector to the estate-holder or other person entitled thereto after deducting therefrom such amount by way of expenditure 'Irncflrred in such management as may be determined by the Collector after given theestate-holder or other person, a reasonable opportunity of being heard.
(7) No lease lease, lien, encumbrance or contract to the forest land held under direct arrangement, shall be binding upon the State Government.