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Any person who has made a claim under this Act, or any Forest-officer or other person generally or specially empowered by the Local Government in this behalf, may, within three months from the date of the order passed on such claim by the Forest-Settlement-officer under section ten, eleven, fourteen or fifteen, present an appeal from such order to such officer of the Revenue Department, of rank not lower than that of a Collector or Deputy Commissioner, as the Local Government may from time to time, by notification in the local official Gazette, appoint by name, or as holding an office, to hear appeals from such orders: Provided that if the Local Government establishes (as it is hereby empowered to do) a Court (hereinafter called the Forest-court) composed of three persons to be appointed by the Local Government, such appeals shall be presented to such Court.