Insertion of section 47A in Act 1 of 1894

After section 47 of the principal Act, the following section shall be inserted, namely :- "47 A.

1. (1) In the application of this Act to the State of Gujarat, for section 47 the provisions of sub-sections
2. (2) and
3. (3) of this section shall be substituted.
4. (2) If the Collector is opposed or impeded in taking possession under this Act of any land or in preventing enjoyment of any right attached to land or clo- sure of any easement under this Act, he shall, if a District Magistrate, enforce the surrender of the land to himself, or the closure of such easement and if not such Magistrate, he shall apply in any area for which a Commissioner of Police has been appoin- ted to the Commissioner of Police and elsewhere to any Executive Magistrate and such Commissioner or Magistrate shall enforce the surrender of the land to the Collector, or as the case may be, the closure of such easement.
5. (3) Any action taken by a Collector, Magistrate or Commissioner of police under sub-section
6. (2) shall not be questioned in any Civil Court and no injunction shall be issued by such Court for restraining such action, but the aggrieved party shall be entitled in such Court to reasonable compensation for any damage suffered by him by reason of the powers under this section being exercised by any such officer wrongfully or without authority.".