Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Where the conqbetent authority is of opinion that requisition any property is needed or likely to bc needed for any public immovable purpose, being a purpose ofthe State, and that the propesty propertyw should be requisitioned, the competent authority- (a) shall call ~ p o u the owner or any 0 t h ~ ~ person who may be in possession - of the propzrty by notice in - In sub-sectiod (2) of section 1, tbe words "for s pbriod of twenty years" were sustitufcd for the words "for a period of ten years " by section 2 of the Tamil Nadu Requisitioning and Acquisition of Immovable Property (Amendment) A&, 1966 (Tamil Nad. 4.t 24. of 1%6)1 *b-scction (2) itself was omitted by sectLon 2 (c) of the Tatnil Nadu %uisitioning and Acquisition of Jmniovui)li~ Property (,4 A&, 1377 (President's Act 6 of l~ 'a> Remove Watermark Wondershare PDFelement i9%: T.N. Act XLII] Requlsilionitzg and Acquis ftion G71 of ImmovabZc Property. . . writing (specifying therein the purpose of the requisition) t show cause, within fif'teen days of. the date of the service of such notice on him, why the property should not be requisitioned ; and * -r (b) may, by ofder, direct &at neither the owner of the property nor any other person shall, without permission of the competent authority, dispose of,or stmc t urally alter, the property or let it out to 7 tenant un ti1 the expiry of such period, not oxceeding two months, as may'be specified in the order. (2) If, after considering the cause, if any, shown by any person interested in the property or in possession thereof, the competent authority is satisfied that it is necessary or expedient so to 6.0, it may, by order in writing, requisition the property and may make such further orders as appear tomit to be necessary or expedient in connoxion with the requisitioning : . L Provided that no property or part thereof- (a) which is bona fide used by the owner thereor as the residence of himself or his family, or (b) which is exclusively used either for religious worship by the public or as a school, hospital, public ? library or an orphanage or for the purpose of accommoda- tion of persons connected with the management of such place of worship or such school. hospitrl librapy or orphanage, shall be requisitioned: Provided further that where the requisitioned property consists of premises which are being used as a tesidence by a tenant for not less than two months immediately preced- ing the date of the service of notice under sub-section (I), the competent authority shall provide such tenant with alternative accommodation which, in its opinion is suitable.