Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Any person who shall unauthorisedly occupy any land which is the property of Government shall be liable to pay by way of assessment:- (i) if the land so occupied forms an assessed survey number or part thereof, the full assessment of such number for the whole period of his occupation or a part thereof proportionate to the area occupied, as the case may be; (ii) if the land so occupied be unassessed, an assessment on the area occupied calculated for the same period at the rate imposed on lands of a similar quality in the neighbourhood, or at the highest dry or wet rate of the village, as the case may be, or when no such rates exist in such manner as may be prescribed: Provided that payment of assessment under this section shall not confer any right of occupancy. Explanation. --- For the purposes of this section, occupation for an incomplete portion of a year may be deemed to be occupation for a whole year. 496 Conclusiveness of decision as to amount of assessment