law: 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.