Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(I) The competent authority may, at ay time, releasc from requisition any property requisitioned under section 3 and shall. as far as possible restore the property in as good a condition as it yas when possession thereof was taken, subject only to the changes caused by reasonable wear and tear, (2) Where any property is to be released from requisition, the competent authority may, after such enquiry, if any, as it may in any case consider necessary to make or cause to be made, specify by an order in writing the person to whom possession of the property shall be given and such possession shall, as far as practicable, be given to the person from whom possession was taken at the time of the requisition or to the successor-in-intesest of such person. (3) The delivery of possession of the requisitioned property to the person specified in the order made under sub-section (2) shall be a full discharge of the Government from all liabilities in respect of such property : Provided that nothing in this section shall prejudice any right in respeet of the property which any other person may be entitled to by due process of law to enforce against the person to whom the possession of the property is so delivered. (4) Where the person to whom the possession of any requisitioned property is to be given cannot be found and has no legal agent or other person empowered to accept delivery on his behalf, the competent authority shall cause a notice, to be published in the Official Gazette, declaring that the property is released from requisition. (5) When a notice referred to in sub-section (4) is published in the Official Gazette, the property specified in such notice shall cease to be subject to requisition on and from the date of such publication and be deemed to have been delivered to the person entitled to possession thereof and the Government shall not be liable for any compensation or other claims In respect of the property for any period after the said date. the competent