(1) (a) The State Government may whore it is of opinion that a district or Dart thereof may be brought under consolidation operations, make a declaration to that effect in the Gazette, whereupon it shall become lawful for any officer or authority who may be empowered in this behalf by the District Deputy Director of Consolidation -
(i) to enter upon and survey, in connection with rectangulation or otherwise and to take levels of any land in such area ;
(ii) to fix pillars in connection with rectangulation; and
(iii) to do all acts necessary to ascertain the suitability of the area for consolidation operations;
(b) The District Deputy Director of Consolidation shall cause public notice of the declaration issued under clause (a) to be given at convenient places in the said district or part thereof.
(2) (a) when the State Government decides to start consolidation operations, either in an area covered by a declaration issued under sub-section (1) or in any other area, it may issue a notification to this effect.
(b) every such notification shall be published in the Gazette and in a daily newspaper having circulation in the said area and shall also be published in each unit in the said area in such manner as may be considered appropriate.
(3) (a) Where the State Government is of opinion that in the case of a district or part thereof in respect of which a notification has already been issued under section 37, it is expedient in public interest so to do, it may make a declaration by notification in the Gazette that the such district or part thereof may again be brought under consolidation operation :
Provided that no such declaration shall be issued within twenty years from the date of the notification referred to in the said section, but in special circumstances the State Government may, in public interest, issue such declaration after ten years from the said date.
(b) The provisions of this Act shall mutatis mutandis apply to every notification issued under sub-section (1) as they apply to a notification under section 3.
Effect of notification under section 3(2)