(1) No appeal shall be preferred under section 9 after the expiration of thirty days from the date on which the decision or order appealed against was received by the appellant.
(2) No application for revision shall be preferred under sub-section (1) of section 10 after the expiration of thirty days from the date on which the decision or order sought to be revised was received by the applicant.
(3) In computing the period of thirty days referred to in sub-sections (1) and
(2), the time required to obtain a copy of the decision or order appealed against or sought to be revised shall be excluded.
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1) and (2), the officer or the Government may admit an appeal or application preferred after the period specified therein, if such officer or the Government is satisfied that the appellant or the applicant had sufficient cause for not preferring the appeal or application within that period.
Document accompanying petition of appeal or application for revision
13. Every petition or appeal or application for revision under this Act shall be accompanied by the decision or order appealed against or sought to be revised or by an authenticated copy of the same.
Saving of operations of other laws in force
14. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed as exempting any person unauthorisedly occupying land from liability to be proceeded against under any law for the time being in force:
Provided that if any penalty has been levied from any person under section 6, no similar penalty shall be levied from him under any other law in respect of such occupation.
499 Saving of suits by persons aggrieved by proceedings under the Act
15. Nothing contained in this Act shall be held to prevent persons deeming themselves aggrieved by any proceedings under this Act except as herein before provided, from applying to the Civil Courts for redress:
Provided that the civil courts shall not take cognizance of any suit instituted by such person for any such cause of action unless such suit shall be instituted within six months from the time at which the cause of action arose.
Explanation: -- The cause of action shall be deemed to have arisen in respect of any assessment or penalty, on the date on which such assessment or penalty was levied.
Certain persons deemed to be in unauthorised occupation of land
16. Where a lease of land which is the property of Government expires or is terminated by the Government or any other authority competent in that behalf, the lessee or any other person remaining in possession of the land after such expiry or termination, or where land granted to any person is liable to be resumed by the Government for the breach or non-observance of any of the conditions subject to which the grant is made and the Government or any other authority competent in that behalf has passed orders resuming the land for such breach or non-observance, the grantee or any other person remaining in possession of the land after the passing of those orders, shall for the purposes of sections 4 to 14, be deemed to be a person unauthorisedly occupying such land.
Saving of lands claimed by right of escheat or reversion
17. Nothing in this Act save as provided in section 16 shall apply to any lands claimed by right of escheat or reversion until such lands have been reduced into possession by the Government.
Power to make rules