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Tea And Rubber Estates (Control Of Fragmentation) (Amendment) Act (No. 20 of 2005) - Sect 9

Insertion of new section 23A of the principal enactment

9. The following new section is hereby inserted immediately after section 23 of the principal enactment, and shall have effect as section 23A of that enactment :-
"Prohibition of approval of blocking out plans by certain officers of local authorities without a certificate from the Board.
23A
(1) No officer of a local authority shall approve a blocking out plan of any land which is a tea estate, a rubber estate or a coconut estate, as the case may be, within the meaning of the Act, unless a certificate of consent under section 14 of the Act has been issued by the Board relating to such estate.
(2) Any officer of a local authority who acts in contravention of the provisions of subsection (1), shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall on conviction after summery trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a term of imprisonment of not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand rupees or to both such imprisonment and fine.
(3) Any approval granted in respect of a blocking out plan in contravention of subsection (1) shall be null and void and shall have no legal validity whatsoever.".

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