Section 18: Application for removal from list of estate-holders.
The United Provinces Estates Act, 1920State Act of Uttar Pradesh · Act 7 of 1920
18. An estate-holder competent to contract to whose estate the provisions of Part II do not apply may at any time apply to the [State Government] for a declaration that the foregoing provisions of of this part shall cease to apply to him. The [State Government] on receipts of such application, may for any reason it may consider sufficient declare that the foregoing provisions of this part shall cease to apply to an estate-holder and publish a notification to that effect in the [Official Gazette] in English and in the vernacular.
Form the date of the publication of such notification in English the foregoing provisions of this part shall cease to apply to the estate-holder, and his estate shall henceforward be held subject to the personal law that would have been applicable to him had no notification under section 7 been issued, and his name shall be struck off the list maintained under that section.