(1) an official of the State Government notified by the State Government as the prescribed authority1 for the purpose of this section may on the application of a bank, make an order on any agriculturist or his heir or legal representative, directing the payment of any sum due to the bank on account of financial assistance availed of by the agriculturist, by the sale of any land or any interest therein upon which the payment of such money is charged or mortgaged:
Provided that no order shall be made by the prescribed authority under this section for the sale of any land or any interest therein or any other movable property upon which the payment of money is charged or mortgaged unless the agriculturist or the heir or legal representative of the agriculturist, as the case may be, has been served with a notice by the prescribed authority, calling upon him to pay the amounts due.
1. See Not. Nos. 8-29/71-Fin (W&M) dated 31st March, 1979 and Fin-I F (F) 1-26/83 dated 11th April, 1985.
H.P. AGRICULTURAL CREDIT OPERATIONS AND MISCELLANEOUS 9 PROVISIONS (BANKS) ACT, 1972
(2) Every order passed by the prescribed authority in terms of subsection (1) shall be deemed to be a decree of a civil court and shall be executed in the same manner as a decree of such court.
(3) Nothing in this section shall debar a bank from seeking to enforce its rights in any other manner open to it under any other law for the time being in force.