Sub-Decree No. 53 on Procedures for Establishment, Classification and Registration of Permanent Forest Estate.

This Sub-decree is enacted to define the procedures for establishment, classification and registration of permanent forest estate in order to organize and manage sustainable forest land and forest resource in line with the policy and the national forest management plan.
With the participation from concerned local authorities, the Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries has the obligation to study and define permanent forest reserve areas for the whole country. A national committee shall be established in order to address issues concerning the creation of the permanent forest reserve. Minister of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries has the right to issue the classification and the registration of permanent forest reserve.
Procedure, creation, classification and registration of private forest shall be set by Prakas on the rule of private forest of the Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries.