Mental Treatment Act, 1945

Notices, etc., of making of compulsory acquisition order.

55.—(1) Where a mental hospital authority make a compulsory acquisition order, they shall—

(a) publish at least once in a newspaper circulating in their mental hospital district an advertisement in the prescribed form stating that a compulsory acquisition order has been made by them in respect of specified land and that the order and the map referred to therein may be inspected at a specified place, and

(b) give to every owner or reputed owner, lessee, or reputed lessee, and occupier of the land to which the order relates a written notice in the prescribed form containing the like statements as are mentioned in paragraph (a) of this sub-section and also stating that any person aggrieved by the order may send to the Minister, in a specified manner and within a specified time, an objection to the order.

(2) A mental hospital authority who have made a compulsory acquisition order and complied in respect thereof with the foregoing provisions of this section may apply to the Minister for an order confirming such compulsory acquisition order.