(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 [other than the Madhya Bharat and Sironj regions of the State of Madhya Pradesh] [Substituted by ALO 1956.].(3)It applies 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.][It also applies to the territories comprised in the Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh, Bhopal and Sironj regions of the State of Madhya Pradesh.] [Inserted by M.P. Act No. 23 of 1958.]
