law: Indian Forest Act, 1927
  27. Power to declare forest no longer
  
  reserved. – 
  (1) The State Government may, by [***]
  
  notification in the Official Gazette, direct that, from a date fixed by such
  
  notification, any forest or any portion thereof reserved under the Act shall
  
  cease to be a reserved forest.
  (2) From the date so fixed, such forest or
  
  portion shall cease to be reserved, but the rights (if any) which have been
  
  extinguished therein shall not revive in consequence of such cessation.