Forestry Act, 1946

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Retrospective apportionment of State annuities in certain cases.

27.—Where a vesting order is made in respect of any land (in this section referred to as the acquired land) which, immediately before the vesting date, was subject, in conjunction with other land, to a State annuity,—

(a) the Minister shall give notice of the vesting order to the authority to whom the State annuity was payable,

(b) the said authority shall, as soon as may be after the receipt of the notice, do one of the following things:—

(i) apportion, with effect as on and from the day immediately preceding the vesting date, the State annuity in such manner as the said authority consider proper between the acquired land and such other land,

(ii) declare the whole of the State annuity to be exclusively charged, with effect as on and from the day immediately preceding the vesting date, on either the acquired land or such other land.