Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Where any land specified in sub-section (1) of section 14 has been acquired under this Act, the Government shall undertake or cause to be undertaken such measures as may be necessary for the improvement, development, clearance or re-development of the land or the erection of buildings thereon in accordance with such plan as may be approved by them: Provided that where any such land or any portion thereof is, in the opinion of the Government, unsuitable for the purposes mentioned above, on the ground that the use of the land or portion for such purposes will not be in the interest of orderly town planning, the framing of any master plan or the division of the town into different zones, or on the ground that the area of the land or portion is small, or on any other ground, the Government may use it or allow it to be used for such public purposes as they think fit. (2) Any sites or buildings on any land referred to in the proviso to sub-section (1) may be allotted or leased for the accommodation of slum dwellers and of persons of such low income groups as may be prescribed, on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed: Provided that except as otherwise provided in this Act, no portion of any land acquired under this Act shall be permanently granted, sold or alienated in favour of any person or persons. (3) For the purpose of undertaking the measures referred to in sub-section (1), the Government may either hold the land under their ownership, control and management and execute such measures themselves or through any agency on such terms and conditions as may be determined by them or transfer the land to the Corporation of the City of Trivandrum or the City of Calicut or the City of Cochin, as the case may be, or the municipal council or township committee or panchayat concerned, or to the development authority or town planning trust having jurisdiction over the area in which the land is situate, for the said purpose. (4) Where any land is transferred as provided in sub-section (3),- (a) such land shall vest in the corporation or the municipal council or the township committee or the panchayat or the development authority or the town planning trust, as the case may be, and the corporation or the municipal council or the township committee or the panchayat or the development authority or the town planning trust shall be liable to pay the cost of acquisition of the land or such portion thereof as the Government may fix in each case; and (b) the corporation or the municipal council or the township committee or the panchayat or the development authority or the town planning trust, as the case may be, shall execute the measures referred to in sub-section (1) in accordance with such plans as may be approved by the Government and subject to such direction as may be given from time to time by the Government; and shall, in the use of the land and in all connected matters, be bound by the provisions of this Act. (5) Any building erected by the Government or, as the case may be, by a local authority under this section may be allotted or leased for the accommodation of slum dwellers and of persons of such low income groups as may be prescribed, on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed. (6) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, or in any contract, no person to whom any building is allotted or leased under sub-section (5) for his accommodation shall sublet that building to any other person or alienate his rights in respect of such building. (7) If the allottee or tenant of any building sub-lets that building or portion thereof or alienates his rights in respect of such building or portion of building in contravention of sub-section (6), such sub-lease or alienation shall be invalid and such building or portion of building or, as the case may be, such rights shall revert to the Government or the local authority, as the case may be.