The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section I
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 8] NEW DELHI, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1970/PHALGUNA 20, 1891
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MINISTRY OF LAW
(Legislative Department)
New Delhi, the llth March, l970\Phalguna 20, 1891 (Saka)
The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 11th March, 1970, and is hereby published for general informa- tion:—
THE REQUISITIONING AND ACQUISITION OF IMMOV- ABLE PROPERTY (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1970
No. 1 OF 1970
[11th March, 1970]
An Act further to amend the Requisitioning and Acquisition of Immovable Property Act, 1952.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
1. This Act may be called the Requisitioning and Acquisition of Short title.
Immovable Property (Amendment) Act, 1970.
146 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II —S E C. 2] 3. In section 6 of the principal Act,— Amend- ment °f section 6, (a) after sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely: —"(1A) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1),
the Central Government shall release from requisition,—
(a) any property requisitioned or deemed tp be requisi- tioned under this Act before the commencement of the Requi- sitioning and Acquisition of Immovable Property (Amend- ment) Act, 1970, on or before the expiry of a period of three years from such commencement;
(b) any property requisitioned under this Act after such commencement, on or before the expiry of a period of three years from the date on which possession of such property was surrendered or delivered to, or taken by, the competent authority under section 4,
unless such property is acquired under section 7 within the period of three years aforesaid.".
(b) in sub-section (2), after the words "released from requisi- tion", the words, brackets, figures and letter "under sub-section (1) or sub-section (1A)" shall be inserted.