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(1) Where, the Director or the Chief Fire Officer or any other Fire Officer of any authority, who is in-charge of a fire fighting operation requires firefighting equipment or property of any other authority or any institution or individual, he may by order requisite such equipment or property for the purpose of extinguishing fire in any area and take possession thereof from the authority or any institution or individual, as the case may be. Appointment of Fire Safety Officer. Requisition of fire fighting property. 11-12 Functions in case of fire. GUJARAT GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, Ex, 01-04-2013 [PART- IV (2) As soon as may be, after the firefighting operations are over, such officer shall release the equipment or property, taken possession of by requisition under sub-section (1) and restore the same to the authority, institution or individual from whose possession such property was taken. (3) Where any firefighting equipment or property is requisitioned under sub-section (I), there shall be paid to the owner of such property, compensation the amount of which shall be determined in accordance with the principles hereinafter set out, that is to say,- (a) where the amount of compensation can be fixed by agreement between the Director or, as the case may be, the Chief Fire Officer and the owner of the firefighting property, it shall be paid in accordance with such agreement; (b) where no such agreement can be reached, the Director or, as the case may be, the Chief Fire Officer shall refer the matter to the District Magistrate having jurisdiction over the area in which the firefighting equipment or property was kept, used or procured and the · Magistrate shall, after hearing the parties and such other persons as be deems necessary, fix the amount of compensation taking into consideration the rent which the firefighting equipment or property would normally fetch if rented out for a similar purpose. The orders of the District Magistrate fixing the amount of compensation shall be final.