law: Indian Forest Act, 1927
  17.Appeal from order passed under section 11, section
  
  12, section 15 or section 16.  –
  Any person who has made a claim under this Act,
  
  or any Forest-officer or other person generally or specially empowered by the
  
  State 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 11,
  
  section 12, section 15 or section 16, present an appeal from such order to such
  
  officer of the Revenue Department, of rank not lower than that of a Collector,
  
  as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint
  
  to hear appeals from such orders:
  Provided that the State
  
  Government may establish a Court (hereinafter called the Forest Court) composed
  
  of three persons to be appointed by the State Government, and when the Forest
  
  Court has been so established, all such appeals shall be presented to it.