Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) If in the opinion of the State Government retiuisitien. or any person authorised in this behalf by the State Government it is necessary so to do, for maintaining supplies and services essential to the life c f the com- munity or for providing proper facilities for accom- modation, transport, communication, irrigation, flood contrcl and anti-erosion measures including embank- ment and drainage or for providine: land individually or in groups to landle s, flood affected or displaced persons, or tu a society registered under the Assam Co-operative Societies, Act, 194·9, or a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956, formed for the be11efit and rehabilitation of landless, flood affecteJ or displaced perso')s the State Government or the person so authorised, as the case may be, may, by order in writing, requisition any land and may make such fur ther orders as appear to it or to him to be neces~ ary or expedient in connection with the requisitioning: Provided that no l.tnd used for the purpose of religious worship shall be requisitioned under this section : Provided further that where it is neces~ary to pro- vide the land to landle ~s or displaced p ~ rsons such land shall not be requisitioned unless the person inte- rested in the land has been given an opportunity of making representation against it within such time and in such manner as may be prescribed in th:s behalf. Assa•n Act l o t