(1) Where any 'land requisitioned under section 3 is not acqliired and is to be released from requisition, the Pro vincial Goremnment may, after making such inquiry, if any.
as it· considers . necessary, specify by order in writing the person who appears to it to be entitled to the possession of such laud.
# .Aoquisition of land.
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Ia £., i - I f , i, 1or 1so4$ • 1'lte Tl'est Bengal Land (Requisition and Acquisition) Act, 3
1948.·- :
II of 1948.]
(Section 7.)
(2) The delivery of possession of sucli l_and td the person specified in the order made under sub-section (1) shall be .a full discharge of any liability of the Provincial Government to deliver possession to such per-son as may have rightful claim to possession thereof but shall not prejudice any right in respect of such land which any other person may be entitled by due process of law to enforce against the person to whom possession of the land is so delivered.
· (3) ViThere. the person to whom the possession of any lg.nd requisitioned under section 3 is to be delivered cannot be found or is not readily traceable or has no agent or other· person empowered to accept delivery on his behalf, the Pio . vicial Government shall publish in . the Official Gazette a notice declaring that such land is released from requisition· and shall cause a copy thereof to be affixed on some cons picuous part of such land.
(4) When a notice referred to in sub-section (3) is pub lished in the Official Gazette, the . land specified in such notice shall cease to be subject to requisition on and from the date of such publication and shall be deemed to have been delivered to the person entitled to possession thereof;
and the Provincial Government shall not be liable for any compensation or other claims in respect of such land for any period after the said date.