The [State Government] may, within five years from the publication of any notification under section 20. revise any arrangement made under section 15 or section 18, and may for this purpose rescind or modify any order made under section 15 or section 18, and direct that any one of the proceedings, specified in section 15 be taken in lieu of any other of such proceedings, or that the rights admitted under section 12 be commuted under section 16.
STATE AMENDMENT
Uttar Pradesh
Insertion of a new section 22-A in Act 16 of 1927.--After Section 22 as amended in its application to Uttar Pradesh, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act, the following section shall be inserted and shall be deemed to have been inserted with effect from November 23, 1960, namely: --
"22-A. Power of revision in other cases.--(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of section 22, the State Government may, either of its own motion or on a petition being made in that behalf, call for the record of any appeal decided under section 18, and may confirm the order passed on such appeal, or set it aside, or modify it, or remand the case to the Forest Settlement officer with such directions as it may think fit.
(2) No petition under this section may be made, after November 22, 1965, and the State Government may not exercise any power under this section, after the said date."
[Vide Uttar Pradesh Act 11 of 1973, s. 2]
Substitution of new section for section 22.--For section 22 of the principal Act, the following shall be substituted, namely--
"22. Powers to revise arrangements made under section 15 or section 18.--The State Government may, within five years from the publication of any notification under section 20, revise any arrangement made under section 15 or on appeal under section 18. and may for this purpose rescind or modify any order made under section 15 or section 18, and direct that any of the proceedings specified in section 15 be taken in lieu of any other of such proceedings, or that the rights admitted under section 12 be commuted under section 16."
[Vide Uttar Pradesh Act XXIII of 1965,s. 10]