LawgistThe National Highways Act
3APower to acquire land, etc
1[3A. Power to acquire land, etc.--(1) Where the Central Government is satisfied that for a public purpose any land is required for the building, maintenance, management or operation of a national highway or part thereof, it may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare its intention to acquire such land.
(2) Every notification under sub-section (1) shall give a brief description of the land.
(3) The competent authority shall cause the substance of the notification to be published in two local newspapers, one of which will be in a vernacular language.]
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1. Subs. by Act 16 of 1997, s. 3, for section 3 (w.e.f. 24-1-1997).
All sections
- 1 Short title, extent and commencement
- 2 Declaration of certain highways to be national highways
- 3 Definitions
- 3A Power to acquire land, etc
- 3B Power to enter for survey, etc
- 3C Hearing of objections
- 3D Declaration of acquisition
- 3E Power to take possession
- 3F Right to enter into the land where land has vested in the Central Government
- 3G Determination of amount payable as compensation
- 3H Deposit and payment of amount
- 3-I Competent authority to have certain powers of civil court
- 3J Land Acquisition Act 1 of 1894 not to appl
- 4 National highways to vest in the Unio
- 5 Responsibility for development and maintenance of national highways
- 6 Power to issue direction
- 7 Fees for services or benefits rendered on national highways
- 8 Omitted.
- 8A Power of Central Government to enter into agreements for development and maintenance of national highways
- 8B Punishment for mischief by injury to national highway
- 9 Power to make rules
- 10 Laying of notifications, rules, etc., before Parliament
