(1) When the district forest officer assigns a part of the national forest to a user group as a community forest, he must also take into account the distance of the forest from the village and the wishes and management capacity of the local users to manage the forest.
(2) If the local consumers or someone else has planted trees on the public land outside the national forest area and protected the trees, or if the local consumers have formed a consumer group and taken the approval of the organization owning such land and want to plant trees so that the ownership of the land remains with the same organization, the District Forest Officer That forest area can be recognized as a community forest.