Section 3: Appointment of estate officers.

The Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1971Central Act · Act 40 of 1971

The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,-

(a) appoint such persons, being gazetted officers of Government [or of the Government of any Union Territory] or officers of equivalent rank of the [statutory authority], as it thinks fit, to be estate officers for the purposes of this Act; ***

[Provided that no officer of the Secretariat of the Rajya Sabha shall be so appointed except after consultation with the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha and no officer of the Secretariat of the Lok Sabha shall be so appointed except after consultation with the Speaker of the Lok Sabha:

Provided further that an officer of a statutory authority shall only be appointed as an estate officer in respect of the public premises controlled by that authority; ***]

[Provided also that the Custodian, Deputy Custodian and Assistant Custodian of the enemy property appointed under section 3 of the Enemy Property Act, 1968 (34 of 1968), shall be deemed to have been appointed as the Estate Officer in respect of those enemy property, being the public premises, referred to in sub-clause (4) of clause (e) of section 2 of this Act for which they had been appointed as the Custodian, Deputy Custodian and Assistant Custodian under section 3 of the Enemy Property Act, 1968.]

(b) define the local limits within which, or the categories of public premises in respect of which, the estate officers shall exercise the powers conferred, and perform the duties imposed, on estate officers by or under this Act.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1971
Section	3
Marginal note	Appointment of estate officers.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In 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.

inserted, Act 7 of 1994. . Ins. by Act 7 of 1994, s. 3 (1-6-1994).
substituted, Act 61 of 1980. . Subs. by Act 61 of 1980, s. 2, for “corporate authority” (w.e.f. 20-12-1980).
omitted. . The word “and” omitted by s. 3,ibid. (w.e.f. 20-12-1980).
added. . Provisos added by s. 3, ibid. (w.e.f. 20-12-1980).
omitted, Act 3 of 2017. . The word “and” omitted by Act 3 of 2017, s. 20 (w.e.f. 7-1-2016).
inserted. . Ins. by s. 20,ibid. (w.e.f. 7-1-2016).

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