Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Notwithstanding anything elsewhere contained in this Act, the Provincial Government may, on application · made in this behalf in writing by the owner of any private forest or of any waste-land referred to in sub-section (1) of section 11 or, if there be more than one owner thereof, by the owners of shares therein amounting in the aggregate to at least one-half thereof, to the Collector of the district in which such forest or land is situated, by a notification, apply the provisions 0£ this Act applicable to vested forests, subject to such restrictions o conditions as may have been determined by an agreement between the said Collector and such- person or persons, to such forest or land and thereupon such fore or land shall be managed on behalf of such own-er or owners as a vested forest in accordance with such provisions by a Regional Forest-officer specified in this behalf by the Provin- cial Government. Land re- quired under this Act to be deemed to be needed for a public purpose under the Land Aequisi- tion Act,