(1) If, within the time so fixed, the sums due are not paid or no cause is shown to the satisfaction of the officer empowered under section 23, the said officer may issue the declaration as described in sub-section (2) of the same section, and such declaration shall be published in the Official Gazette.
(2) Such declaration shall be conclusive evidence of its contents, and shall not be called in question in any court by the borrower, his heirs, legal representatives or assigns, or by any member of his family if he belongs to a Joint Hindu Family nor shall any right, principle or rule arising from or under the personal or customary law applicable to the said persons or any of them affect the validity or effectiveness of a mortgage executed or of a declaration published under this Act, or the procedure therein provided for enforcement thereof.
(3) Such declaration may be produced by the said officer, or by such otherperson as he may either generally or specially appoint in this behalf, before theprincipal civil court of original jurisdiction within the locallimits of whose jurisdiction any of the property liable for the debt due is situated, in the same manner as a decree of which execution is sought.