(1) Any officer not below the rank of Revenue Divisional Officer appointed by the Government in this behalf may, either on his own motion or on application made by any person interested, call for and examine the record of any proceeding which has been taken by the prescribed officer and may make such inquiry or cause such inquiry to be made and subject to the provisions of this Act may pass such orders thereon as he thinks fit:
Provided that no order shall be passed under this sub-section without giving all persons who may be affected by the order an opportunity of being heard.
(2) The officer referred to in sub-section (1) shall not of his own motion pass an order under that sub-section after the expiry of a period of one year from the date of the final publication of the record of rights under sub-section (2) of section 4.
(3) In the case of an application under sub-section (1), the application shall be made within six months from the date of final publication of the record of rights under sub-section (2) of section
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7. Acquisitions of rights to be reported.—(1) Any person acquiring by survivorship, succession, inheritance, partition, purchase, mortgage, gift, lease or otherwise any right over any land shall report in writing his acquisition of such right to such officer as may be specified by the Government by notification in the Gazette, within three months from the date of such acquisition and that officer shall at once give a written acknowledgment of the receipt to the report to the person making it:
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Provided that where the person acquiring the right is a minor or otherwise disqualified, his guardian or other person having charge of his property shall make the report required by this subsection.
(2) If any person makes a report under sub-section (1)—
(a) after the period of three months but within the period of one year from the date of acquisition of the right, the report shall be received on payment of a penalty of two rupees;
(b) after the period of one year from the date of such acquisition, the report shall be received on payment of a penalty of five rupees.
(3) The officer referred to in sub-section (1) shall enter the substance of every report made to him under that sub-section in a register in the prescribed form and also make an entry therein respecting the acquisition of any right which he has reason to believe to have taken place and of which a report has not been made under sub-section (1).