Section 20
Notification declaring forest reserved.-(]) When the following events have occurred, nilmcly :-
20. Notification declaring forest reserved.-(]) When the following events have occurred, nilmcly :-
. (a) the period fixed under section 6 for preferring claims has elapsed, and all claims, if any, made under that section or section 9 have been dispqsed of by the Forest Settlement-officer ;
(b) if any such claims have been made; the period limited by section 17 for appealing from the orders passed on such claims has elapsed, and all appeals (if any) , presented within such period have been disposed of by the appellate officer or Court ; and ·
(c) all lands (if any), to be included in the proposed forest, which the Forest Settlement-officer has, under section 11, elected to acquire under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, have become vested in the Government under section 16 .of that Act, ·
the 1[2[State] Government] shall publish a notification in the 3 [O/ficial Gazette}, spec·fying definitely, according to boundary-marks erected or otherwisei the limit of the . f forest which is to be reserved, and declaring the same to· be reserved from a date fixed by the notification.
(2) From the date so fixed such forest shall be deemed to be a reserved forest.
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