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Section 16C: Enforcement of the orders of the competent authority and appellate authority.

The Metro Railways (Construction of Works) Act, 1978Central Act · Act 33 of 1978

[16C. Enforcement of the orders of the competent authority and appellate authority.--(1) Any order made by the competent authority or the appellate authority determining any amount payable under this Act may be enforced in the same manner as if such order were a decree made by a civil court in a suit pending therein, and it shall be lawful for such authority to send, in the case of his inability to execute, such order, to the principal civil court of original jurisdiction within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the order was made.

(2) Where any order under sub-section (1) is required to be enforced by the principal civil court of original jurisdiction, a certified copy of the order shall be produced to the proper officer of the court required to enforce the order.

(3) The production of such certified copy shall be sufficient evidence of the order.

(4) Upon the production of such certified copy, the principal civil court of original jurisdiction shall take the requisite steps for enforcing the order, in the same manner as if it had been a decree made by itself.]

Where this provision sits

ActThe Metro Railways (Construction of Works) Act, 1978
Section16C
Marginal noteEnforcement of the orders of the competent authority and appellate authority.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

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

  • inserted, Act 41 of 1982. . Ins. by Act 41 of 1982, s. 10 (w.e.f. 15-5-1983).

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