When any local area is to be settled, the Chief Commissioner may, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, issue a notification of settlement, and in such notification shall---
         (a) define the local area to be settled;
         (b) specify the operations which are to be carried out in the settlement;
        Power to amend notification. and may from time to time, with the like sanction, amend, alter or cancel such notification.
     Every such notification, amendment, alteration and cancellation shall be published in the local official Gazette.