Lawgist3Appointment of estate officers
The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,-
(a) appoint such persons, being gazetted officers of Government 1[or of the Government of any Union Territory] or officers of equivalent rank of the 2[statutory authority], as it thinks fit, to be estate officers for the purposes of this Act; 3***
4[Provided that no officer of the Secretariat of the Rajya Sabha shall be so appointed except after consultation with the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha and no officer of the Secretariat of the Lok Sabha shall be so appointed except after consultation with the Speaker of the Lok Sabha:
Provided further that an officer of a statutory authority shall only be appointed as an estate officer in respect of the public premises controlled by that authority; 5***]
6[Provided also that the Custodian, Deputy Custodian and Assistant Custodian of the enemy property appointed under section 3 of the Enemy Property Act, 1968 (34 of 1968), shall be deemed to have been appointed as the Estate Officer in respect of those enemy property, being the public premises, referred to in sub-clause (4) of clause (e) of section 2 of this Act for which they had been appointed as the Custodian, Deputy Custodian and Assistant Custodian under section 3 of the Enemy Property Act, 1968.]
(b) define the local limits within which, or the categories of public premises in respect of which, the estate officers shall exercise the powers conferred, and perform the duties imposed, on estate officers by or under this Act.
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1. Ins. by Act 7 of 1994, s. 3 (1-6-1994).
2. Subs. by Act 61 of 1980, s. 2, for “corporate authority” (w.e.f. 20-12-1980).
3. The word “and” omitted by s. 3,ibid. (w.e.f. 20-12-1980).
4. Provisos added by s. 3, ibid. (w.e.f. 20-12-1980).
5. The word “and” omitted by Act 3 of 2017, s. 20 (w.e.f. 7-1-2016).
6. Ins. by s. 20,ibid. (w.e.f. 7-1-2016).
- 1 Short title, extent and commencement
- 2 Definitions
- 3 Appointment of estate officers
- 3A Eviction from temporary occupation
- 3B Eviction from residential accommodatio
- 4 Issue of notice to show cause against order of eviction
- 5 Eviction of unauthorised occupants
- 5A Power to remove unauthorised constructions, etc
- 5B Order of demolition of unauthorised construction
- 5C Power to seal unauthorised constructions
- 6 Disposal of property left on public premises by unauthorised occupants
- 7 Power to require payment of rent or damages in respect of public premises
- 8 Powers of estate officers
- 9 Appeals
- 10 Finality of orders
- 11 Offences and penalty
- 11A Offences under section 11 to be cognizable
- 12 Power to obtain information
- 13 Liability of heirs and legal representatives
- 14 Recovery of rent, etc., as an arrear of land revenue
- 15 Bar of jurisdiction
- 16 Protection of action taken in good faith
- 17 Delegation of powers
- 18 Power to make rules
- 19 Repeal
- 20 Validation
