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(1) The Government shall have power to declare, by notification in the Gazette, any land to be ecologically fragile land on the recommendation of the Advisory Committee appointed for the purpose under Section 15. (2) No declaration under sub-section (1) shall be made without giving the owner a reasonable opportunity of being heard. (3) No person shall change the legal or physical status or ownership of the land proposed to be declared an ecologically fragile land after the notice issued under sub-section (2). (4) With effect from the date of declaration of any land as ecologically fragile land under sub-section (1), the ownership and possession of the land or any other form of right over it, shall subject to the provisions of this Act, stand transferred to and vested in the Government free from all encumbrances and the right, title and interest of the owner or any other person thereon shall stand extinguished from the said date.