(1) If the State Government is of opinion that having regard to any of the purposes of this Act, the enforcement of certain provisions thereof, in any specified Tribal area is 1** inexpedient for a certain time in relation to any specified produce, the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, suspend in relation to such specified produce and in the specified Tribal area for such period or periods as may be 1** expedient and as may be specified in the notification, the operation of those provisions; and thereupon, those provisions shall stand suspended, in such Tribal area in relation to such specified produce except as respect things done or omitted to be done before the date of publication of the notification.
(2) Where the operation of the provisions of this Act is suspended in relation to any specified produce in any specified Tribal area for any period or periods specified in the notification under sub-section (1), and the State 1977 : Mah. V] The Maharashtra Tribals Economic Condition 9 (Improvement) Act, 1976 Cognizance of offence, etc.
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1 The words “unnecessary or” and “necessary or”, respectively, were deleted by Mah. 56 of 1977, s. 7(a).
Government 1**at any time before the expiry of such specified period or periods is of opinion 2[that it is expedient to revise and enforce these provisions] (or any of them) again in relation to any specified produce in such specified Tribal area, the State Government may cancel partially or wholly any such notification of suspension by a like notification; and thereupon, those provisions which were suspended and which are revived shall again have full effect in relation to the specified produce in such specified Tribal area from the date of publication of the second notification.
(3) The suspensation of the operation of any provision under subsection (1) shall not affect those provisions which are not suspended; and in respect of any specified produce already tendered before the period of suspension (or which may be voluntarily tendered during the period of suspension) at the place notified or any other place specified by the State Government in that behalf, all the provisions of this Act shall continue to apply or apply therto as if none of the provisions had been suspended.
15. The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that any power (other than the power to suspend operation of provisions of this Act under section 14 or the power to make rules under section 18) exercisable by it under this Act or the rules or orders made thereunder, may be exercised also by the Tribal Authority or by any officer of the State Government not below such rank as may be specified in the notification, subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified therin.
16. No suit , prosecution or other proceedings shall lie against the State Government or Tribal Authority or agent or officer or other person authorised by the State Government for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act or any rules or orders made thereunder.
17. Every officer or agent of the State Government and every servant or sub-agent of such agent acting under the provisions of this Act shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code.