section 13
Power to acquire land over which right is claimed
The Maharashtra National and State Parks Act, 1970General197029 sections
Statutory text
- (1) In the case of a claim to a right in or over any land, the competent authority shall pass an order admitting or rejecting the same in whole or in part.
- (2) If such claim is admitted in whole or in part, the competent authority shall either—
- (a) exclude such land from the limits of the proposed National Park or State Park, or
- (b) come to an arrangement with the owner thereof for the surrender of his rights, or
- (c) proceed to acquire such land in the manner provided by the Land Acquisition Act, 1894.
- (3) For the purpose of so acquiring such land—
- (a) the competent authority shall be deemed to be a Collector proceeding under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894;
- (b) the claimant shall be deemed to be a person interested and appearing before him in pursuance of a notice given under section 9 of that Act ;
- (c) the provisions of the preceding sections of that Act shall be deemed to have been complied with;
- (d) the Collector, with the consent of the claimant, or the Court with the consent of both parties, may award compensation in land, or partly in land and partly in money;
- (e) in the case of the stoppage of a public way or a common pasture, the competent authority may, with the previous sanction of the State Government, provide for a substitute public way or common pasture, as far as may be practicable or convenient.
- (4) The acquisition of any land or interest thereon under this Act shall be deemed to be acquired for a public purpose within the meaning of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894.
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