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Special provision in respect of lands already held by co-operative societies.- (1) If on the notified date, any society registered under the Co-operative Societies Act (including a society specified in Schedule II) holds on lease any land held by any public trust and any member of such society cultivates such land, which together with the other land already held by him, exceeds in the aggregate the cultivating tenant‘s ceiling area, the society shall within such period as may be prescribed distribute the land in such excess to any other member: Provided that the extent of land so distributed together with the other land already held by such other member shall not exceed in the aggregate the cultivating tenant‘s ceiling area. (2) The extent of the land which could not be distributed in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (1) shall revert to the public trust on the expiry of the period prescribed under that sub-section. (3) The public trust shall within the prescribed period lease out the lands reverted under sub-section (2) to – (i) a co-operative farming society; or (ii) any person who is already a cultivating tenant; or (ii) any person who not being already a cultivating tenant executes an agreement with the public trust that he will contribute his own physical labout or that of any member of his family in the cultivation of the land so leased out to him: Provided that the extent of land so leased out to any person other than a co-operative farming society, together with the other land, if any, already held by such person, shall not exceed in the aggregate the cultivating tenant‘s ceiling area. *15-A. Trustee or authorized officer to take possession of land reverting to public trust.- (1) Any person in possession of the land reverting to the public trust under section 7 or sub-section (2) of section 15, shall be deemed to have been evicted and the trustee of the public trust shall take possession of the land immediately. (2) (i) If the person who is deemed to have been evicted under sub-section (1) fails to deliver possession of the land to the trustee or obstructs the trustee from taking possession of such land, or (ii) if the trustee fails to take possession of the land under sub-section (1), the authorized officer may, after using such force as may be necessary for the purpose, take possession of the land himself on behalf of the public trust and deliver possession of such land to the public trust.