Bare ActsThe ODISHA COURT OF WARDS ACT, 1947

Section 40

Notice calling upon claimants to notify claims

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Notice calling upon claimants to notify claims.- (1) On, the publication of a notification under Section 21, the Collector therein specified may, at any time publish in the Gazette a notice in English and in the vernacular calling upon all persons having pecuniary claims, whether immediately enforceable or not against the ward or his property to notify the same in writing to the Collector within six months from the date of such notification. (2) The notice shall also be published at such places and in such other manner as the Court may, by general or special order, direct and shall be sent by registered post to every person who is known to the Collector as having a pecuniary claim against the ward of his property and of whose address the Collector is credibly informed. (3) The State Government may at any stage of the proceedings under Sections 41, 42 and 44 invest any persons either by name or in virtue of his office with the powers of a Collector for any or all of the, purposes of these sections. Explanation - A claim shall be deemed to be pecuniary for the purpose of this section and Sections 42 and 45 notwithstanding that a suit for its enforcement or a reference of such claim to arbitration is pending or that a decree or award has been passed establishing the same.

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