Section 1. Short title and extent

CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY 1. Short title and extent. —(1) This Act may be called the Indian Forest Act, 1927. 2 [(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 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[3] in the whole or any specified part of that State to which this Act extends and where it is not in force.]