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Section 13A

Section 13A. Redetermination of surplus land in certain cases

1[13-A. (1) The prescribed authority may, at any time, within a period of two years from the date of the notification under 2[subsection (4) of section 14] rectify any mistake apparent on the face of the record :

Provided that no such rectification which has the effect of increasing the surplus land shall be made, unless the prescribed authority has given notice to the tenure-holder of its intention to do so and has given him a reasonable opportunity of being heard.

(2) The provisions of Sections 10, 11, 12, 12-A, 13, 14 3[15 and 16] shall mutatis mutandis apply in relation to any proceeding under sub-section (1) and for purposes of application of Section 10, the notice under the proviso to sub-section (1), shall be deemed to be a notice under Section 9. ]

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.