Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) If the tenants making the application under section 164 submit a scheme mutually agreed to the consolidation officer shall in such manner as may be prescribed, examine it and, if necessary, modify it. (2) If no scheme is submitted with the application, the consideration officer shall prepare a scheme in such manner as may be prescribed and invite objections, if any, on the scheme in the prescribed manner form the persons likely to be affected thereby. (3) If the consolidation officer is of opinion that the redistribution of the land in accordance with the scheme will have the result of allotting to any tenant an interest in any holding or land of a less market or productive value than that of his interest in the original holding or land the scheme may provide for the payment of compensation to such tenant by such person or persons as the consolidation officer may direct. 39 (4) The amount of compensation payable under sub-section (3) shall be calculated as nearly as may be, in accordance with the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. (5) When the scheme is complete, the consolidation officer, after considering and as far as possible removing the objections, if any, made to the scheme, shall submit it for confirmation to the Deputy Commissioner.