128.—(1) The Department may by regulations direct that section 127 shall not apply in such cases as may be specified in the regulations.
(2) Regulations under subsection (1) may, in particular, be framed so as to exempt from the application of that section cases defined by reference to all or any of the following matters—
(a)acts of such descriptions or done in such circumstances or subject to such conditions as may be specified in the regulations;
(b)trees in such conservation areas as may be so specified;
(c)trees of a size or species so specified; or
(d)trees belonging to persons or bodies of a description so specified.
(3) Regulations under subsection (1) may, in particular, exempt from the application of section 127 cases exempted from section 122 by subsection (5) of that section.