(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Committee shall have all the rights, powers and liabilities of an owner in respect of any evacuee property of an evacuee vested in it.
(2) The Committee shall take such measures as may be necessary, for the good management and protection of any evacuee property of an evacuee vested in it, for the assertion of title thereto and for obtaining possession thereof and may for such purposes do all acts and incur all expenses which are necessary or incidental.
(3)(i) The Committee shall maintain, in the prescribed form, accounts of all evacuee property vested in it, a separate account being maintained in respect of each evacuee or where the property of a body of co-sharer evacuees are managed jointly, in respect of each such body of co-sharer evacuees.
(ii) The State Government shall cause such accounts to be audited at such intervals and by such person as may be prescribed. The cost of such audit shall be paid by the Committee according to the prescribed scale.
Power of evacuee to dispose of property.
Power, rights and liabilities of the Committee.
8 The West Bengal Evacuee Property Act, 1951.
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(iii) A copy of the audited accounts as aforesaid of the evacuee property shall be supplied to the evacuee or the body of co-sharer evacuees by the Committee on application and the audilsed accounts shall also be available in the prescribed manner for inspection by the evacuee or any co-sharer evacuee or any agent of the evacuee or a co-sharer evacuee authorised in writing.
(4) The Committee shall pay to an evacuee in such manner and at such intervals as may be prescribed, the receipts derived from his property vested in the Committee, after deducting therefrom all sums debitable to such receipts.
Certain payments not to be valid discharge.
Restrictions on transfer by Committee.
20. No payment made, after publication of a notice under sub-section (5) of section 17, on account of any amount due to the evacuee in respect of his property vested in the Committee save and except to the Committee or some person appointed by the Committee, shall constitute a valid discharge of any liability in respect thereof.