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Settlement liable to be set aside. - In the event of any land settled as aforesaid not being brought under cultivation within a period of five years from the date of the settlement, or the land being alienated in contravention of the provisions contained in Section 46, it shall be open to the Deputy Commissioner of the district to set aside the settlement and to make re-settlement of such land in accordance with provision of Section 63-A. Chapter X Miscellaneous Provisions as to Landlord and Tenant Korkar [64. Conversion of land into korkar with Deputy Commissioner's permission. - (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any record-of-rights or any custom or usage to the contrary, every cultivator or landless labourers resident of village or a contiguous village shall have the right to convert land in that village into 'korkar' with the permission of the Deputy Commissioner previously obtained : Provided that no permission of the Deputy Commissioner shall be required under sub-section (1) to the conversion of land into 'korkar1 by a cultivator where he was entitled on the date of the commencement of the Chota Nagpur Tenancy (Amendment) Act, 1947 (Bihar Act 25 of 1947), by virtue of any entry in the record-or-rights or any local custom or usage to convert such land into 'korkar' without the consent of the landlord. (2) On receipt of an application for permission to convert land into 'korkar', the Deputy Commissioner shall in the prescribed manner serve on the landlord a notice of the date on which he intends to hear the application and after hearing the parties and holding such inquiry as he thinks proper the Deputy Commissioner shall either grant or refuse the permission and his decision shall the final: Provided that the Deputy Commissioner shall dispose of an application made under this Section within a period of three months fro m the date of receipt thereof by him.]