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Section 4
The Maharashtra Prevention of Fragmentation and Consolidation of Holdings Act.Maharashtra

Section 4. Settlement of standard areas

(1) The 1[State] Government may, after such inquiry as it deems fit and after consultation with the District Advisory Committee 2[or any other body], appointed by it, provisionally settle for any class of land in any local area the minimum area that can be cultivated profitably as a separate plot.

(2) The 3[State] Government shall by notification in the Official Gazette, and in such other manner as may be prescribed publish the minimum areas provisionally settled by it under sub-section (1) and invite objections thereto.

1Superscript markers show text inserted or substituted by a later amendment. The Act carries the markers without the footnotes they refer to, so they are shown without a target.