law: 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.]