Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Added by the Orissa Estates Abolition (Amendment) Act, 1956 (Orissa Act 15 of 1956) s. 4 (v) 1[Provided further that the period of limitation for the realization by the Sate Government of dues in respect of such of the leases, settlements, or transfers as have been the subject matter of an inquiry under this clause, shall, with respect to the period after the date of vesting, be three years from the date of order setting aside or confirming the same, made by the Collector or by the Board of Revenue, as the case may be, unless a longer period of limitation is applicable in respect of such dues under any other law for the time being in force in relation to such lease, settlement or transfer]; (j) After serving a notice in writing on the Intermediary for the production of all such accounts, registers, maps, plans and other documents and papers as are in his opinion necessary for the administration and management of the estate and if such notice is not complied with within the time fixed or such further time as the Collector may allow, it shall be lawful for the Collector or any Officer not being below the rank of a Sub-Deputy Collector authorized by him in writing in this behalf, to enter upon any land or building, with such assistance as he considers necessary and seize and take possession of all such accounts, registers, maps, plans and such other documents and papers and the Intermediary shall get a copy of the list of such papers seized and may also have access to the papers if he needs them for preferring his claim for compensation. 2[(k) With effect from the date of vesting or the date of commencement of the Orissa Estates Abolition (Amendment) Act, 1956 which ever date comes later, all contracts for gathering of produce from land or for collection of produce or fish from forests or fisheries or collection of fees or tolls from hats, bazaars, ferries and such other sairat interests lying within the estate entered into between an Intermediary and any other person shall, notwithstanding anything in any judgment; decree or orders of any court, become void: Provided that where the person concerned has enjoyed his rights under any such contract during any period after the date of vesting but before the date of commencement of the aforesaid Act the Collector shall order a deduction from the total amount of compensation payable to the intermediary an amount which bears the same proportion to the value of the total benefits contracted for by the Intermediary as the aforesaid period bears to the total period of such contract and the amount to be so deducted shall be determined by the Collector after such inquiry as the State Government may by rules prescribe; Provided further that no suit or other legal proceeding shall lie or shall be proceeded with against the State for any damage caused or likely to be caused in relation to any such contract in respect of the period aforesaid by virtue of anything done or purporting to have been done in pursuance of the provisions of this Act or any rules made thereunder.