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Section 3C: Hearing of objections.

The National Highways Act, 1956Central Act · Act 48 of 1956

[3C. Hearing of objections.--(1) Any person interested in the land may, within twenty-one days from the date of publication of the notification under sub-section (1) of section 3A, object to the use of the land for the purpose or purposes mentioned in that sub-section.

(2) Every objection under sub-section (1) shall be made to the competent authority in writing and shall set out the grounds thereof and the competent authority shall give the objector an opportunity of being heard, either in person or by a legal practitioner, and may, after hearing all such objections and after making such further enquiry, it any, as the competent authority thinks necessary, by order, either allow or disallow the objections.

Explanation.--For the purposes of this sub-section, "legal practitioner" has the same meaning as in clause (i) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1.961).

(3) Any order made by the competent authority under sub-section (2) shall be final.]

Where this provision sits

ActThe National Highways Act, 1956
Section3C
Marginal noteHearing of objections.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source
Judgments citing it3

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, Act 16 of 1997. . Subs. by Act 16 of 1997, s. 3, for section 3 (w.e.f. 24-1-1997).

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