law: Indian Forest Act, 1927
  30.  Power
  
  to issue notification reserving trees, etc . –
  The State Government may, by notification in
  
  the Official Gazette:
  a) declare any trees or class of trees in a
  
  protected forest to be reserved from a date fixed by the notification;
  b) declare that any portion of such forest
  
  specified in the notification shall be closed for such term, not exceeding
  
  thirty years, as the State Government thinks fit, and that the rights of private
  
  persons, if any, over such portion shall be suspended during such terms,
  
  provided that the remainder of such forest be sufficient, and in a locality
  
  reasonably convenient, for the due exercise of the right suspended in the
  
  portion so closed; or
  c) prohibit, from a date fixed as aforesaid,
  
  the quarrying of stone, or the burning of lime or charcoal, or the collection
  
  or subjection to any manufacturing process, or removal of, any forest-produce
  
  in any such forest, and the breaking up or clearing for cultivation, for
  
  building, for herding cattle or for any other purpose, of any land in any such
  
  forest.