section 73
Orders under Part III, V, VI and VII to be passed after hearing in writing
The Bombay Hereditary Offices Act, 1874General188685 sections
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- (1) Except as hereinafter provided in clause 2 of this section, no order directing commutation of a watan, or under Part V assigning the remuneration of officiators, or under Part VI determining the custom of the watan as to service and what persons should be registered as heads of families or representative watandars, or under Part VII determining the periods of service, shall be passed, unless investigation after an investigation recorded in writing and a proper opportunity afforded for the hearing of claims and the production of evidence. In each such investigation, and in removals from office under section 58 the Collector or other officer shall record his decision with the reasons therefor in his own handwriting.
- (2) Unless the [State Government] shall otherwise direct, decisions passed subsequently to the year 1866 after an investigation recorded in writing, and after a proper opportunity had been afforded for the hearing of claims and the production of evidence, and which are recorded, with the reasons therefor, in the handwriting of a Collector or his Assistant or Deputy, shall be accepted, in so far as they may not be inconsistent with the provisions [of this Act] in lieu of fresh investigation and decision under this Act for the purpose of framing the register required in section 67. If any details necessary for the said register have not been recorded in any decision of the nature described above, but are forthcoming from the evidence taken in connection with such decision, they may be supplied from such evidence in lieu of fresh investigation for the completion of the register.
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