Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Where any land requisitioned under this Act is no longer required for the public purpose for which it was requisitioned, the competent authority at whose instance the land was requisitioned, shall send an intimation in writing to that effect to the State Government (2) Where the State Government is satisfied that the land is no longer required for a public purpose, the State Government may release the land from requisition and upon such release the land shall be restored as far as possible In the same condition in which it was on the date on which the State Government was put in possession thereof and the State Government shall pay compensation for damage, if any caused to the land otherwise than by reasonable use there of or irresistible force: Provided that noting in this sub-section shall apply to any structures, trees or crops standing on the land on the date on which compensation has been paid. (3) An officer authorised in this behalf by the State Government shall after holding such inquiry as he deems lit, determine the amount of compensation payable under sub-section (2). (4) The decision of such officer, shall subject to an appeal to the State Government which shall be made within a period of thirty days from the date of the decision, be final. (5) Where any land is to be released from requisition, the State Government may,after making such inquiry, if any, as it deems fit. specify by order in writing, the person to whom possession of the land shall be given. (6) The delivery of possession of land to the person specified in an order made under sub-section (5), shall be a full discharge of the State Government from all liability in respect of such delivery but shall not prejudice any rights in respect of the land which any other person may be entitled by due process of law to enforce against the person to whom possession of the land is so delivered. (7) Where the person to whom possession of any requisitioned land is to be given, cannot be found and has no agent or other person empowered to accept delivery on his behalf, the State Government shall cause a notice declaring that the land is released from requisition to be affixed on some conspicuous part of the land and shall also publish such notice in the Office Gazette. (8) When a notice referred to in sub-section (7) is published in the Office Gazette the land 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 State Government shall not be liable for any compensation or other claim in respect of the land for any period after the said date.