Notification declaring forest reserve.

(1) When the following events have occurred, namely: - (a) the period fixed under section 5 for preferring claims has elapsed, and all claims, if any, made within such period have been disposed of by the Forest Settlement Officer, and (b) if such claims have been made, the period fixed by section 14 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, and (c) all lands, if any, to be included in the proposed reserved forest which the Forest Settlement Officer has, under section 10, elected to acquire under the Land Acquisition Act, 1984 or the Nagaland Land (Acquisition and Requisition) Act, 1965, have become vested in the Government under any of those Acts, the Sate Government may publish a notification in the Official Gazette, specifying the limits of the forest which it is intended to reserve and declaring the same to be reserved from a date fixed by such notification. (2) From the date so fixed such forest shall be deemed to be a reserved forest.