Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(l) Any person interested in the land on which betterment charge is may pay up the dues in arrears to protect the land from sale for arrears of betterment charge and he may then apply to the Revenue Offcer authorised by the State Government in that behalf to recover such amount for him from the persons liable to pay the samo according to the extent of their respective liabilities. (2) The Revenue Offcer shall deal with the application for recovery under sub-section(1' in the same manner as a plaint filed in a suit for recovery of moneyinstituted in accordancøwith the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 and the )rder passed on 8uch V of applicationshallhavethe same force and effect as •that of a decree for money passed by a Civil Court under the said Code.