(7) This Act may be called the West Bengal Requisi- Short title, tioned Land (Continuance of Powers) Act, 1951.
(2) It extends to the whole of West Bengal.
(3) It shall come into force on the first
1951. and shall cease to period of three years from that date except as respects thinggs done or omitted to be done before Tiod apd section 8 of the Bengal General Clauses Act, 1899, shall apply upon the expiry of this Act as if it had then been repealed by a West Bengal Act.
extent, commencement and day of April, duration.
ve effect on the expiration of a the exp1ration of such
2. In this Act, umless there is anything repugnant in Definitions the subject or context,-
(7) the Act'" means the Requisitioned Land (Continuance of Powers) Act, 1947;
(2) the Ordinance" means the Requisitioned Land (Continuance of Powers) Ordinance, 1946;
(3) "requisitioned land' means immovable property which, at the commencement of this Act, is subject to any requisition effected under the rules made under the Defence of India Act, 1939, and continued under the Ordinance and the Act and is under requisition for any purpose other than the purposes of the Union.
3. Notwithstanding the expiration of the Defence of Continu India Act, 1939, and the rules made thereunder and the anoce of repeal of the Ordinance and the expiration of the period of reguls operation of the Act in respect of requisitioned lands, all requisitioned lands shall continue to be subject to requisition until the expiry of this Act and the State Government may UsG or deal with any requislioned Jand in such manner as Tmay appear to it to be expedient:
Provided that the State Government may at anys time release from requisition any requisitioned land.
tions.
Price-Indian, annas 2; English, 3d.
Land (Continuance of 2 The West Bengal Reguisitioned andContinuane Powers) Act, 1I51.
West Ben. Act (Scctions 4, 5.)
Xelease 4. (7) Where any requisitioned land is to be rol.
from requi from requisition, the State Government may, after moa king necessary, specify by such inquiry, if any, as it cousiders order in writing the person to whom possesS10n of the 1 shall be given.
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(2) The delivery of possession of the requisitioned land to the person specified in an order made under sub-section
(1) shall be a full discharge of the State Govern ment from all liability in respect of such delivery, but shall not preiu.
dice any rights in respect of the land which any other person may be entitled by due process of lav to enforce against the person to whom possession of the land is so delivered.
(3) Where the person to whom possession of any requisitioned land is to be given cannot be found and has no agent oT other person empoweredto accept delivery on his behalf the State Goverument shall cause a notice declaring that the land is eeleased from requisition to be affixed on some conspicuous part of the land and publish the notice in the Oficial Gazette.
(4)When a notice referred to in sub-section (3) is published in the Offcial Gazette, the land specified in such notice shall cease to be subject to requisition on and from the date of such publication and be deemed delivered to the person entitled to possession thereof; and the State Government shall not be liable for any cômpensation or other claim in respect of the land for any period after the said date.
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