(1) (a) The State Government may whore it is of opinion that a district or Dart thereof may be brought under

consolidation operations, make a declaration to that effect in the Gazette, whereupon it shall become lawful for any officer or authority who may be empowered in this behalf by the District Deputy Director of Consolidation - (i) to enter upon and survey, in connection with rectangulation or otherwise and to take levels of any land in such area ; (ii) to fix pillars in connection with rectangulation; and (iii) to do all acts necessary to ascertain the suitability of the area for consolidation operations; (b) The District Deputy Director of Consolidation shall cause public notice of the declaration issued under clause (a) to be given at convenient places in the said district or part thereof. (2) (a) when the State Government decides to start consolidation operations, either in an area covered by a declaration issued under sub-section (1) or in any other area, it may issue a notification to this effect. (b) every such notification shall be published in the Gazette and in a daily newspaper having circulation in the said area and shall also be published in each unit in the said area in such manner as may be considered appropriate. (3) (a) Where the State Government is of opinion that in the case of a district or part thereof in respect of which a notification has already been issued under section 37, it is expedient in public interest so to do, it may make a declaration by notification in the Gazette that the such district or part thereof may again be brought Effect of notification under section 3(2) under consolidation operation : Provided that no such declaration shall be issued within twenty years from the date of the notification referred to in the said section, but in special circumstances the State Government may, in public interest, issue such declaration after ten years from the said date. (b) The provisions of this Act shall mutatis mutandis apply to every notification issued under sub-section (1) as they apply to a notification under section 3. 4. (1) Upon the publication of the notification under sub-section (2) of section 3 in the official Gazette, the consequences, as hereinafter set forth, shall subject to the provisions of this Act, from the date specified thereunder till the publication of notification under section 37 or sub-section (1) of section 5, as the case may be, ensue in the area to which the notification under sub-section (2) of section 3 relates, namely- (a) the district or part thereof, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be under consolidation operations and the duty of maintain the record-of-rights and preparing the village map the field book and the annual register of each village shall be performed by the District Deputy Director of Consolidation, who shall maintain Or prepare them, as the case may be, in the manner prescribed; (b) notwithstanding anything contained in the U. P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950,(UP Act no. 1 of 1951) no tenure-holder except with the permission in writing of the Settlement Officer, Consolidation, previously obtained shall use his holding or any part thereof for purposes not connected with agriculture, horticulture or animal husbandry including pisciculture and poultry farming ; Provided that a tenure-holder may continue to use his holding, or any part thereof for any purpose far which it was in used prior to the date specified in the notification issued under sub-section (2) of section 3. (2) Upon the said publication of the notification under sub- section (2) of section 3 the following further consequences shall ensue in the area to which the notification relates, namely- (a) every proceeding for the correction of records and every suit and proceeding in respect of declaration of rights or interest in Cancellation of notification under section 3 Special provisions regarding undisputed succession any land lying in the area, or for declaration or adjudication of any other right in regard to which proceedings can or ought to be taken under this Act pending before any court or authority whether of the first instance or of appeal, reference or revision shall on an order being passed in that behalf by the court or authority before whom such suit or proceeding is pending, stand abated : Provided that no such order shall be passed without giving to the parties notice by post or in any other manner and after giving them an opportunity of being heard : Provided further that on the issue of the notification under sub-section (1) of section 5, in respect of the said area or part thereof every such order in relation to the land lying in such area or part, as the case may be, shall stand vacated ; (b) such abatement shall be without prejudice to the rights of the persons affected to agitate the right or interest in dispute in the said suits or proceedings before the appropriate consolidation authorities under and in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder. Explanation- For the purposes of sub-section (2), a proceeding under the Uttar Pradesh Imposition of Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1960 (as applicable of the State of Uttrakhand) or an uncontested proceeding under sections 134 to 137 of the U. P.