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| (1) The State may as hereinafter in this section provided, acquire and dispose of any paddy land offered, on any prescribed ground by the owner thereof to the State for purchase. An offer under this subsection shall be made to the Agricultural Productivity Committee in writing specifying the ground on which the offer is made. |
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| (2) Where an offer under subsection (1) is made, the Agricultural Productivity Committee shall decide whether or not such offer is made on any prescribed ground, and shall communicate its decision in writing to the person who made the offer. Where such person is aggrieved by such decision he may within thirty days after the communication of such decision to him, make an appeal in writing from such decision to the Agricultural Tribunal. |
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| (3) Where an offer made under subsection (1) is decided by the Agricultural Productivity Committee or Tribunal to be made on any prescribed ground, the Minister shall certify by Notification published in the Gazette that it is necessary that the paddy land to which such offer relates should be acquired by the State and upon the publication of such Notification in the Gazette, such paddy land shall for the purpose of the application of the Land Acquisition Act be deemed to be required for a public purpose, and -shall be acquired under that Act: |
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| (4) A paddy land acquired by the State as provided in this section shall be transferred to the Agricultural Productivity Committee "within whose local jurisdiction that paddy land wholly or mainly lies. Such Committee shall-
| | (a) if there was a tenant cultivator in respect of such paddy land at the time of such acquisition by the State permit him to continue to be such tenant cultivator, and | | |
| | (b) if there was no tenant cultivator, appoint a suitable person to be the tenant cultivator of such paddy land, preferably a person residing within the local jurisdiction of such Committee. | | |
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