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Government may of its own accord or on application declare its intention to make scheme for consolidation of holdings - (1) With the object of consolidating holdings in any estate or group of estates or any part thereof for the purpose of better cultivation of lands therein the 1[State] Government may of its own motion or on application made in this behalf declare by the notification and by publication in the prescribed manner in the estate or estates concerned its intention to make a scheme for the consolidation of holdings in such estate or estates or part thereof as may be specified . (2) On such Publication in the estate concerned the 1[State] Government may appoint a Consolidation officer who shall after obtaining in the prescribed manner the advice of landowners of the estate or estates concerned 2[and of the non-proprietors and the Gram Panchayat, if any, constituted in such estate or estates under the Gram Panchayat Act [No. IV of 1953] prepare a scheme for the consolidation of holdings in such estates or estates or part thereof as the case may be. (1Substituted for the word "Provincial" by the Adaptation of Laws orders, 1950). (2Inserted by the east Punjab Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation ) , (Amendment and validation) Act , 1955 (Punjab Act , 7 of 1955). Section 3 of Punjab Act 7 of 1955, reads thus :- "Validation of certain proceedings:- No scheme of Consolidation under the East Punjab Holdings (consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 1948 shall be deemed to be invalid merely on the ground that the advice of non-Proprietors and Gram Panchayat was not so obtained during any consolidation proceedings before the commencement of this Act''. 1[(3) Where a notification under Sub-section (1) has been made in respect of a group of estates and the holdings is situated in more than one estate in the group, then notwithstanding any thing contained in the Punjab land Revenue Act. 1887, the scheme prepared by the Consolidation Officer may provided for the alteration of the boundaries of such estates.] (1New sub-section (3) added by Punjab Act No. 15 Of 1959) .