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| (1) Where a Supervision Committee appointed under section 25 reports to the Commissioner-General that the cultivation of the extent of land to which a Supervision Order under section 23 relates has not shown improvement during the period specified in such order, the Commissioner-General shall alter inquiry issue an order requiring the owner cultivator or occupier of such land to pay compensation of a sum not exceeding rupees five thousand for each acre of land comprised in such extent or portion thereof, to the credit of the Agrarian Development Fund. |
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| (2) A person aggrieved by an order made under subsection (1) may appeal against the order to the Agrarian Tribunal within whose local jurisdiction the land in respect of which the order is made is situate, within one month at the date of the order. A copy of such appeal shall simultaneously be sent by registered post to the Commissioner-General. |
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| (3) Where no appeal is preferred against an order made by the Commissioner-General under subsection (1) to an Agrarian Tribunal or where such order has been confirmed by the Agrarian Tribunal on appeal, the Commissioner- General shall notify the owner cultivator or occupier by written notice sent by registered post of" the final date before which the compensation specified in the order shall be paid. |
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| (4) Where the landlord or occupier fails to pay the compensation on or before the date specified by the Commissioner-General, the Commissioner-General shall make an application to the Magistrate's Court within whose local jurisdiction the land in respect of which the compensation has to be paid is situated. praying that such sum be recovered in like manner as a line imposed by such Court notwithstanding that such sum may exceed the amount of the tine which that court may in the exercise of its ordinary jurisdiction, impose. |
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| (5) A certificate issued by the Commissioner-General that such sum is due as compensation shall be proof that such sum is so due. |
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