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A declaration or any instrument to be submitted before the competent authority and to be dealt with by him.—(1) Any declaration referred to in Section 2 or any amendment thereto or any instrument referred to in sub-section (3) of Section 5 shall, in the first instance, be submitted in duplicate within fifteen days from the date of execution, to the competent authority alongwith copies of sites plans, building plans with relevant title deeds. (2) On receipt of a declaration or an amendment thereto or an instalment referred to in sub-section (1), the competent authority shall— (a) after holding such inquiry, if any, as it may consider necessary for the purpose, examine the declaration, the amendment of the instrument, as the case may be, to ascertain whether,— (i) the property concerned comes within the purview of this Act and (ii) the declaration, the amendment or the instrument is in order; (b) by any order in writing reasons therefor, accept or reject the declaration, the amendment or the instrument; and (c) in case of acceptance, immediately return the declaration, the amendment or the instrument alongwith all the enclosures to the owner, or owners, as the case may be, for registration within fifteen days of the date of return. (3) Any person, being aggrieved by an order of rejection, may, within thirty days from the date of such order or within such further period as the appellate authority may allow on sufficient grounds being shown, appeal to the State Government whose order on the appeal shall be final. (4) Any order referred to in Cl. (b) of sub-section (2) or in sub-section (3) shall not be called into question in any court of law.