REGISTERED No D(D)-72

The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (ii)

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

[No. 10] NEW DELHI, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1978/PAUSA 20, 1899

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22 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PAST II—SEC. 3(ii)]

MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND IRRIGATION

(Department of Agriculture)

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 10th January, 1978

S.O. 11(E).—Tn exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of article

258 of the Constitution of India and of all other powers enabling him in

this behalf, the President hereby entrusts to the Government of the State

of Sikkim, with the consent of that Government, the functions of the Central

Government under—

(i) the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (1 of 1894), except the function

cxercisable by the Central Government under the proviso to sub-

section (1) of section 55 of the said Act; and

(ii) the Land Acquisition (Companies) Rules, 1963, in relation

to

the

acquisition of land for the purposes of the Union in the State of

Sikkim, subject to the following conditions, namely :—

(a) that in the exercise of such functioas, the Government of the State

of Sikkim shall comply with such general and special directions as

the Central Government may, from time to time, issue; and

(b) that notwithstanding the entrustment, the Central Government may

itself exercise any of the said functions should it deem fit to do so

in any case.

[F. No. 12018/12/76-LRD]

R. K. RATH Jt, Secy.

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