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(1) In the case o f unsettled land, any person who without valid authority has encroached upon or occupied it shall be liable to ejectment forthwith. (2) In the case of annually settled land, persons other than settlem ent holders, members of their families and hired servants, if found in occupation thereof, shall be liable to ejectment forthwith. The settlement, with the settlement holder shall, unless terminated earlier for infringement of th e conditions of the lease or for any action contrary to or inconsistent with the rights conferred on him by the lease, automatically terminate at the end of the period covered by the lease. (3) (a) In the case o f periodically settled land, persons who have entered into occupation without valid authority from the landholder or whose entry or occupation is or has come about in a manner inconsistent with the provisions of this Chapter shall be liable to eviction. (6) Such eviction shall be preceded by service of notice requiring the occupants to vacate the land, and to remove all buildings and other constructions erected, and crops raised, within a period not exceeding one month from the date of receipt o f the notice. (c) The Deputy Commissioner may, after the persons concerned have evacuated or been evicted from the land, take the land under his own m anagem ent, or may let it in farm, for such period as he thinks fit, but shall give the landholder a reasonable opportunity of undertaking in writing that he will do everything in his power to prevent unauthorised occupation by other persons in future, and of agreeing in writing tha t, on his failure to do so, he will forfeit his rights and status of a landholder in respect of the land. If satisfied with an undertaking and agreement as aforesaid, the Deputy Commissioner shall accept them, and they shall be deemed to govern the landholder’s future rights and status in respect of the land, and the land shall then be restored to the landholder. If the landholder sub sequently contravenes the undertaking as aforesaid, or any of the provisions of section 9, he shall be liable to forfeiture of his rights and status in respect of the land, which will then be available for settlement afresh, subject to any lawful encumbrances subsisting upon it.