(1)When the following events have occurred, namely:(a)the period fixed under Section 6 for preferring claims has elapsed, and all claims, if any, made within such period has been disposed of by the Forest Settlement Officer ; and(b)if such claims have been made, the period fixed by Section 15 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 11, elected to acquire under the Land Acquisition Act, 1870, have become vested in the Government under Land Acquisition Act, 1870 (10 of 1870);the State 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.
