(1) Where the controt of avillage road or track has been taken over by a highway authority as aresult ot a notification issued undet sub-section (1) 0t Section 24 and the ownership of the land constltuting the road or track vests in a landlord or proprietary body, the highway authority shall acquire by direct negotiation or, failing negotiation, by resort to the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, the reversionaty rlghts, if any, of the tandlord or proprietary body to the land by paying suitable compensation.
(2) In determining the compensation payable under sub-section
(1), regard shall be had to the fact that the reversionary right is very remote.
(3) The amount, if any, payable by the proprietor under subsection (3) of Section 25 may be set off against the compensation payable to him under sub-section (1).
PART III CONTROL OF LAND DEVELOPMENT IN AREAS ADJACENI TO HIGHWAYS AND LEVY OF BETTERMENT TAX
CHAPTER—VII CONTROL OF ROADSIDE LANDS
27. {1) The State Government shall, by notification in the official gazette, appoint a Planning Board (hereinafter referred to as the Board) for the control of township development in the State in areas adjoining highways outside the territorial jurisdiCtion of Municipalities, City Corporations, City improvement Trusts or like Bodies not being District Boards:
Provided that the State Government may, if it considers asingte Board to be inadequate for handling the work in the whole State, appoint more than one such Board, each for a specified region in the State.
(2) The State Government may, at any time by notification in the official gazette, add to or reduce the area of jurisdiction of a Board.
(3) ABoard, so appointed, shall be a body corporate and have 2 perpetual succession and a common seal and shall sue and be sued by its , own name.
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or non-official,not being less from time to tlme determine
(1) A Board shall consist of such number of members, official than three, as the State Government may by notification in the official gazette:
19 t2) One of the members of the Board shall be aHighway Engineer, 3. second Town Planner with knowledge of architecture, and a third with experience in land valuation.
(3) The Board shall meet and transact business in accordance with such rules as may be prescribed by the State Government in this behalf.
(4) Such rules shall aiso provide for the appointment of a chairman tom among the technical members of the Board, the payment of remuneration and travelling allowance to him and to the other members, and the appointment of stafi‘ for the Board.
(5) If any member of a Board owns, or has any interest in, ‘iand lying in any area the development of which is controlled by such a Board, he shall take no part in the proceedings of the Board relating to such area.
(6) A Board shall be provided by the State Government With 'Such funds as may be required for the proper discharge of its functions and shall maintain regular accounts in accordance with such rules as may be prescribed by the State Government in this behalf.