Amount of compensation

(1) In respect of the scheduled lands acquired under this Act, there shall be paid compensation, the amount of which shall be determined in the manner specified in, and in accordance with the provisions of, this Act. (2) The prescribed authority shall, as soon as may be after the publication of this Act in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, cause public notice to be given at convenient places on or near the scheduled land stating that claims to compensation for all interests in such scheduled land may be made to him. (3) Such notice shall state the particulars of the scheduled land and shall require all persons interested in the scheduled land to appear personally or by agent before the prescribed authority at a time and place therein mentioned (such time not being earlier than fifteen days after the date of publication of the notice) and to state the nature of their respective interests in the scheduled land and the amount and particulars of their claims to compensation for such interests. The prescribed authority may in any case require such statement to be made in writing and signed by the party or his agent. (4) The prescribed authority shall also serve notice to the same effect on all such persons known or believed to be interested therein, or to be entitled to act for persons so interested, as reside or have agents authorised to receive service on their behalf, within the Dharmapuri district. (5) In case any person so interested resides elsewhere, and has no such agent, the notice shall be sent to him by post in a letter addressed to him at his last known residence, address or place of business and registered under sections 28 and 29 of the Indian Post Office Act, 1898 (Central Act VI of 1898). (6) On the day so fixed, or on any other day to which enquiry has been adjourned, the prescribed authority shall proceed to enquire into the value of the scheduled land on the date of taking possession of the said scheduled land and into the respective interests of the persons claiming compensation and shall make an order under his hand of- (i) the compensation which in his opinion should be allowed for the scheduled land; and (ii) the apportionment of the said compensation among all the persons known or believed to be interested in the scheduled land, of whom, or of whose claims, the prescribed authority has information whether or not they have respectively appeared before him. (7) The order under sub-section (6) shall be made within a period of two years from the date of publication of this Act in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette. A copy of the said order shall be published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette and shall also be communicated to every person interested in the scheduled land. Explanation.—In computing the period of two years referred to in this sub-section, any period or periods subsequent to the date of publication of this Act in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette during which the proceedings for the making of an order under this sub-section were held up on account of any stay or injunction by order of any court shall be excluded.