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Proclamation of sale by public auction.-(1) Where any immovable property, or any movable property exceeding Rupees Twenty in value, is ordered to be sold by public auction, the Certificate Officer shall cause a proclamation ofthe intended sale to be made in the language of the Courts of the district. (2) Such proclamation shall be drawn up after notice, to the certificate-debtor, and shall state the time and place of sale, and shall specify as fairly and accurately as possible,- (a) the property to be sold; (b) (where the property to be sold is an interest in an estate or in part of an estate paying revenue to the Government) the revenue assessed upon the estate or part of the estate; (c) the amount for the recovery of which the sale is ordered; and {d) any other thing which the Certificate Officer considers it material for a purchaser to know in order to judge of the nature and value of the property. (3) Where a tenure, or a rayati holding at fixed rates, situated in an area in which Chapter XIV of the Bengal Tenancy Act, 1885 (VIII of 1885), is in force, is to be sold in execution of a certificate for arrears of rent due in respect thereof, the said proclamation shall also state that the tenure or holding will first be put up to auction subject to registered and notified encumbrances, and will be sold subject to those encumbrances if the sum bid is sufficient to liquidate the amount specified in the certificate, and costs, and that otherwise it will, if the certificate-holder so desires, be sold on a subsequent day, of which due notice will be given, with power to annul all encumbrances. (4) Where an occupancy holding, situated in an area in which Chapter XIV of the Bengal Tenancy Act, 1885, is in force, is to be sold in execution Of a certificate for arrears of rent due in respect thereof, the said proclamation shall also state that the holding will be sold with power to annul all encumbrances. (5) Where the certificate-holder is a co-sharer landlord and the certificate is for his share of the rent only, the provisions of sub-clauses (3) and (4) shall not apply. (6) For the purpose of ascertaining the matters to be specified in the proclamation, the Certificate Officer may summon any person whom he thinks necessary to summon, and may examine him in respect to any such matters and require him to produce any document in his possession or power relating thereto.