Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) No person shall, on or after the appointed date, occupy any vacant land or continue in occupation of any vacant land in any urban area or erect any shelter or enclosure or other structure on such land for the purposes of residence or otherwise without the express permission in writing of the Municipal Commissioner in a corporation area, of the Chief Officer in a municipal area and elsewhere, of the Collector, or except in accordance with any law for the time being in force in such urban area. (2) No person shall on or after the appointed date abet any person in occupying any vacant land or in continuing to occupy such land in any urban area, or in erecting any shelter, enclosure or other structure on such land for the purposes of residence or otherwise in contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1), or shall receive or collect from the occupier of such vacant land any amount whether by way of rent, compensation or otherwise or shall in any manner whatsoever operate in relation to the unauthorised occupants of such vacant land : 2[Provided that, the State Government or any Officer or authority specified by it in this behalf, shall have a right to receive or collect from the occupier of such vacant land such reasonable amount by way of penal charges as may be determined, by general or special order, by the State Government, till such time as the structure erected in contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1) is removed from the land. Payment of any such amount shall not create or confer on the unauthorised occupant any right of occupation of such land or structure. Such amount if not paid on demand shall be recoverable as an arrear of land revenue. The amount so collected shall, as far as possible, be utilised for purposes connected with the eviction, rehabilitation and improvement of conditions of unauthorised occupans of vacant lands.]