Indian Forest Act, 1927
1. Short
title and extent –
(1) This Act may be called the Indian Forest
Act, 1927.
(2) It extends to the
whole of India except the
territories which, immediately before the
1st November, 1956 , were comprised in Part B States.
(3) It a plies to the territories which,
immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in the States of
Bihar, Bombay,Coorg, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal; but the
Government of any State may by notification in the Official Gazette bring this
Act into force in the whole or any specified part of that State to which this Act extends and where it is not
in force.]