Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Whenever it appears to the Government or to the Collector that land in any locality within the State of Kerala or within the jurisdiction of the Collector, as the case may be, is needed or is likely to be needed for any public purpose, a notification to that effect shall be published in the Gazette [or in two daily newspapers having wide circulation in that locality] and the Collector shall cause public notice of the substance of such notification to be given at convenient places in the said locality. (2) Thereupon, it shall be lawful for any officer, either generally or specially authorised by the Government or the Collector and for his servants and workmen: (a) to enter upon and survey and take levels of any land in such locality; (b) to dig or bore into the sub-soil; (c) to set out the boundaries of the land proposed to be taken and the intended line of the work, if any, proposed to be made thereon; (d) to mark such levels, boundaries and line by placing marks and cutting trenches; (e) where other wise the survey cannot be completed and the levels taken and the boundaries and lime marked, to cut down and clear away any part of any standing crop, fence or jungle; and (f) to do all other acts necessary to ascertain whether the land is adapted for such purpose: Provided that no person shall enter into any building or upon any enclosed court or garden attached to a dwelling house (unless with the consent of the occupier thereof) without previously giving such occupier at least seven day's notice in writing of his intention to do so. Inserted by the Kerala Land Acquisition (Amendment) Act, 1968.