Indian Forest Act, 1927
38. Protection
of forests at request of owners. –
(1) The owner of any land, or if there be more
than one owner thereof, the owners of shares therein amounting in the aggregate
to at least two-thirds thereof may, with a view to the formation or
conservation of forests thereon, represent in writing to the Collector their
desire that such land be managed on their
behalf by the Forest-officer as a reserved or a protected forest on such terms
as may be mutually agreed upon; or
b) that all or any of the provisions of this
Act be applied to such land.
(2) In either case, the State Government may,
by notification in the Official Gazette, apply to such land such provisions of
this Act as it thinks suitable to the circumstances thereof and as may be
desired by the applicants.