Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Buildings together with lands on which such buildings stand in the possession of intermediaries and used as golas, Factories or mills to be retained by them on payment of rent. - (1) Such buildings or structures together with the lands on which they stand, other than any buildings used primarily as offices or cutcheries referred to in clause (a) of Section 4, as were in the possession of [an intermediary] at the commencement of this Act and used as golas, factories or mills, for the purpose of trade, manufacture or commerce or used for storing grains or keeping cattle or implements for the purpose of agriculture and constructed or established and used for the aforesaid purposes before the first day of January, 1946, shall [subject to the provisions of Sections 7A and 7B] be deemed to be settled by the State with such[intermediary] and he shall be entitled to retain possession of such buildings or structures together with the lands on which they stand as a tenant under the State, subject to the payment of such fair and equitable ground rent as may be determined by the Collector in the prescribed manner: [Provided that in respect of Industrial undertaking fair and equitable rent shall, be determined by the State Government in respect of land or buildings and structures together with lands on which they stand.] (2) If the claim of such [intermediary] as to the possession over such buildings or structures, or lands on which they stand or as to the extent of such buildings, structures or lands is disputed by any person within three months from the date of vesting the Collector shall make inquiry in the matter as he deems fit and pass such order as may appear to him to be just and proper. (3) Where a building or structure, constructed by [an intermediary] in his estate or tenure after the first day of January, 1946, is used for the purposes mentioned in sub-section (1), the [intermediary] shall be entitled to retain the possession of such building or structure, together with the land on which it stands as a tenant under the State, subject to the payment of the rent as provided in sub-section (1), if and only if the State Government is satisfied that such building or structure was not constructed or used for the aforesaid purposes with the object of defeating any provisions of this Act. [7A. Lands on which hat or bazar was held not deemed to be settled with intermediary. - Nothing in Section 5, Section 6 or Section 7 shall be deemed to confer any right on the intermediary in respect of any land on which at any time within one year prior to the date of vesting to the estate or tenure the intermediary was holding a hat orbazar]. [7B. Right to hold mela to vest in the State. - Where on any land deemed to be settled with the intermediary under Section 5, Section 6 or Section 7, a mela was being held by the intermediary at any time within three years of the date of vesting, the right to hold such mela on such land shall, with effect from the date of vesting, vest in the State and notwithstanding anything contained in any law, the State Government shall have and the intermediary shall not have the right to hold mela on such land: Provided that where any such mela on any such land has already been settled by the State Government with any outgoing intermediary on his foregoing the compensation payable to him under Section 32 and settlement is still subsisting, it shall not be disturbed till the expiry of the period of settlement.]