This Act may be called the West Bengal land Reforms Act, 1955. It extends to the whole of West Bengal [except the area described in Schedule I of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980, but not excepting the area included in the said Schedule, which, immediately before the coming into …

 
The document deals with reservation of forest, forest settlement, formation of village forest, protected forests including control and management of forest.
It delienates legal forest types and tenure typologies under them.