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Section 12: Power to obtain information.

The Maharashtra Land Requisition Act.State Act of Maharashtra · Act 33 of 1948

(1) Any officer authorised in this behalf by the [State] Government by a general or special order may, with a view to carrying out the purposes of this Act, by order require any person to furnish to him such information in such person's possession relating to any land which is requisitioned or is continued under requisition or is intended to be requisitioned or continued under requisition [under this Act.]

(2) Every person required to furnish such information as is referred to in sub-section (1) shall be deemed to be legally bound to do so within the meaning of sections 176 and 177 of the Indian Penal Code (XLV of 1860).

Where this provision sits

ActThe Maharashtra Land Requisition Act.
Section12
Marginal notePower to obtain information.
JurisdictionState of Maharashtra
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted. The word "State" was substituted for word "Provincial" by the Adaptation of Laws Order, 1950.
  • added, Bom. 39 of 1950. These words were added by Bom. 39 of 1950, s. 5.

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