Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (3), where any requisitioned property continues to be subject to requisition under section 3, the State Government may acquire it by serving on the owner thereof or, where the owner is not readily traceable or the ownership is in dispute, by publishing in the Official Gazette a notice stating that the State Government has decided to acquire the property in pursuance of this section. (2) Where a notice of acquisition is served on the owner of the requisitioned property, or published in the Official Gazette under sub-section (1), then at the beginning of the day on which the notice is so served or published the property shall vest absolutely in the State Government free from all encumbrances and the period of the requisition thereof shall end. (3) No requisitioned property being immovable property, shall be acquired under this section except in the following circumstances, namely :- (i) where any works have, during the period of requisition, been constructed on, in or over land wholly or partly at the expense of the State Government, and the State Government decides that the value of, or right to use such works should be preserved or secured for the purposes of the State Government ; or (ii) where the cost of restoring any land to its condition at the time of its requisition would in the determination of the State Government be excessive having regard to the value of the land at that time, and the owner declines to accept the release from requisition of the land without payment of compensation from the State Government. (4) Any decision or determination of the State Government under sub-section (3) shall be final and shall not be called in question in any court. (5) For the purposes of clause (i) of sub section (3) “works” includes buildings, structures and improvement of every description.