(1) Any public demand which is not paid on the due date shall become an arrear of public demand and the person responsible for the payment shall become a defaulter.
Explanation :- "Defaulter" in this Sub-Section shall not include the Central or the State Government.
(2) The concerned Administrative Department of the State Government shall authorize one or more Officer in the department to deal with all matters relating to public demand payable to that Department. Similarly, a Corporation, a Government Company or a Bank shall authorize one or more Officer to deal with all matters relating to pub:ic demand payable to them. Such Officer may be known as Public Demand Recovery Offlcer (PDRO).
CHAPTER·II ARREAR OF PUBLIC DEMAND AND ISSUE OF CERTIFICATE ~uisitio!'l for CertificateJ
4.(1) When there is any arrear of public demand the PORO concerned may send to the Certificate Officer having local jurIsdiction a written requisition in Fonn NO.1.
(2) Every such requisition shall be signed and verified by the concerned PDRO as below- Tripura Gazette, Extraordinary Issue, August 24, 2001 A. D. 3
(i)The PDRO shall, in all cases, reflect the actual state of affairs in respect of the dues and in confinnation he will put his signature with seal after mentioning that the amount has been personally verified to be correct. This verification Certificate is to be given in Fonn No.1.(a).
(ii) The PDRO shall also endorse an authenticated copy of the loan account indicating the dues along with Form N~.1.(a) filing of certificate on requisitioij
5. On receipt of any such requisition, the Certificate Officer, if satisfied that the demand is recoverable, shall sign a Certificate in Fonn No.2 stating that the demand is due from the defaulter (who shall be known as the Ce.rtificate Debtor) and shall cause the Certificate to be filed in his Office.
Service of notice and copy of Certificate To the Certificate Debtor
6. When a certificate has been filed in the Office of a Certificate Officer, he shall cause to be served upon the Certificate Debtor a notice in Fonn No.3 and a copy of the Certificate. The notice in Fonn No.3 shall be in Duplicate of which the original shaHbe served upon the certificate debtor and the duplicate shall be signed by the certificate debtor as a token of receipt & returned to the Certificate Officer.
The service of the notice shall be in the manner as in Schedule -I.
Effect of the service of notice and the certificate •
7. From and after the service of notice of any certificate under section 6 upon a certificate debtor :-
(a) any private transfer or delivery of any of his immovable prnperty or of any interest in such property, shall be void against any claim enforceable in execution of the certificate; and
(b) the amount due from time to time in respect of the certificate shall be charged upon the immovable property of tI'Ie certificate ,.
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debtor, wherever situated, to which every other charge created subsequent to the service of the said notice shall be postponed.
filing of petition denying liabili~