Recovery of dues of a bank through a prescribed authority

(1) An officer of the State Government notified by them as the prescribed authority for the purposes of this section may, on the application of a bank and after such enquiry as he deems proper, make an order on any agriculturist or his heir or legal representative, directing the payment of any sum due to the bank on account of financial assistance availed of by the agriculturist, by the sale of any land or any interest therein upon which the payment of such money is charged or mortgaged: Provided that no order shall be made by the prescribed authority under this section unless the agriculturist or the heir or legal representative of the agriculturist, as the case may be, has been served with a notice by the prescribed authority calling upon him to pay the amounts due. (2) Every order passed by the prescribed authority under sub-section (1) shall be deemed to be a decree of a civil court and shall be executed in the same manner as a decree of such court. (3) Nothing in this section shall debar a bank from seeking to enforce its rights in any other manner open to it under any other law for the time being in force.