Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Ins. vide Act No. 9 of 1997. 52 H.P. TENANCY AND LAND REFORMS ACT, 1972 1[(3-C) (a) The Financial Commissioner may, either on a report of a Revenue Officer or on an application or of his own motion, call for the record of any proceedings which are pending before, or have been disposed of by, any Revenue Officer subordinate to him and in which no appeal lies thereto, for the purpose of satisfying himself as to the legality or propriety of such proceedings or order made therein and may pass such order in relation thereto as he may think fit. (b) No order shall be passed under this sub-section which adversely affects any person unless such person has been given a reasonable opportunity of being heard.] (3-D) Where the Collector of the District under sub-section (3A), in case an appeal is not made within the prescribed period, or the Divisional Commissioner in appeal under sub-section(3B), or the Financial Commissioner in 2[revision] under sub-section (3C), decides that the transfer of land is in contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1), such transfer shall be void abinitio and the land involved in such transfer together with structures, buildings or other attachments, if any, shall in the prescribed manner, vest in the State Government free from all encumbrances; and (4) It shall be lawful for the State Government to make use of the land which is vested or may be vested in it under sub-section (2) or sub- section 3[(3D)] for such purposes as it may deem fit to do so. 4[Explanation-I for the purpose of this section, the expression “land” shall include- (i) land recorded as “Gair-mumkin”, “Gair-mumkin Makan” or any other Gair-mumkin land, by whatever name called in the revenue records; and (ii) land which is a site of a building in a town or a village and is occupied or let out not for agricultural purposes or purposes subservient to agriculture 5[but shall not include a built-up area in the municipal area;] 6[Explanation-II- For the purpose of this section the expression “municipal area” means the territorial area of a Nagar Panchayat, Cantonment Board, Municipal Council or a Municipal Corporation constituted under any law for the time being in force.]